AECTIC SEAS. 



CHAPTER II. 



SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN. 



ON the 12th July, the Fox was off Cape Farewell, the 

 southernmost part of Greenland, and on the 24th 

 reached the Danish settlement of Godhaab, on the east 

 coast of Davis' Strait, and transferred one of the crew, 

 who had shown symptoms of diseased lungs, to a vessel 

 :about to leave for Copenhagen. 



At Disco Bay, they secured the services of a young 

 Eskimo as dog-driver, and a team of dogs, afterwards 

 supplemented at the settlements of Proven and Uperna- 

 vick, still farther to the north. On the 6th August, they 

 arrived at the latter cluster of huts, well known to the 

 readers of Kane's second voyage as the first inhabited 

 spot he reached in his memorable escape from Smith's 

 Strait in 1855. 



