DR. KANE'S EXPEDITION. 505 







after crossing Dobbin Bay, the snows were an un- 

 expected impediment. 



Notwithstanding the perils, privations, and suffer- 

 ings, that had attended all the sledge-parties, Dr. Kane 

 determined to organize another before the brief season 

 for such had gone by. This last, under Messrs. M'Gary 

 and Bonsall, left the brig on the 3d of June, and reached 

 Hurnboldt Glacier on the 15th. They were provided 

 with apparatus for climbing ice, but failed in all their 

 efforts to scale this stupendous glacial mass. The bears 

 were so bold as actually to poke their heads in at the 

 tent-door, to the great inconvenience of the sleepers 

 within. Four of the party returned to the brig on the 

 27th, one of them entirely blind. 



Hans and Morton remained out, pushing northwards, 

 and keeping parallel to the glacier at a distance of from 

 five to seven miles. They saw rectangular pieces of ice, 

 apparently detached from the glacier, more than a mile 

 long ! On the 21st of June they sighted open water. 

 This was afterwards called Kennedy Channel. After 

 turning Cape Andrew Jackson they made better way 

 along the ice-foot ; and they pursued their course as far 

 as Cape Constitution, on " Washington Land," in 82 

 27'. The highest point on the opposite coast of " Grin- 

 nell Land "was a lofty mountain, estimated to be in 

 latitude 82 30', and longitude 66 west, which Dr. Kane 

 called Mount Edward Parry ; who, he says, "as he has 

 carried his name to the most northern latitude yet 

 reached, should have in this, the highest known northern 

 land, a recognition of his preeminent position among 

 Arctic explorers." This open channel was found to 

 abound in seals ; bears were numerous one with its cub 

 they succeeded in killing ; and birds, amcng which 

 were brent geese, eider-ducks, king-ducks, dovekies, 

 gnlls, sea-swallows, and Arctic petrels, were in exceed- 



