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astonishment. Says Dr. Kane : "I believe there was 

 but one feeling among the officers of our little 

 squadron, that of unmitigated regret that we were 

 no longer to co-operate with our gallant associates 

 under the sister flag."* The expedition had in 

 reality accomplished nothing ; and it was the con- 

 sciousness of this fact which probably at that very 

 moment suggested to the energetic and resolute 

 mind of Dr. Kane the desirableness and necessity of 

 subsequently organizing another expedition, which 

 would thoroughly explore those remoter arcana of 

 the Arctic regions, which might be accessible to a 

 heroism and perseverance which were more in- 

 domitable and self-sacrificing, and were more ade- 

 quate to the exigencies of the occasion. 



On the 10th of May, aided by a propitious breeze 

 from the north, the squadron forced its way into 

 a clear and open sea, in latitude 65 30', thirty 

 miles distant from the position in which it was event- 

 ually liberated from the embarrassment and perils 

 of the ice. On the 1st of July the vessels made 

 the Danish settlement of Proven. On the 8th they 

 reached Upernavik. They left Ilolsteinberg on the 

 6th of September, and on the 30th the Advance 

 entered the welcome port of New York; though 



* See United States Grinnell Expedition, &c., by Dr. E. K. Kane, 

 published by Harper & Brothers, New York, p. 186. 



