PARRY'S THIRD NORTH-WEST VOYAGE 193 

 July to discover Fury and Heda Strait, along which 

 the ships passed to find their progress blocked by the 

 ice just beyond its entrance into Regent Inlet. Return- 

 ing through the strait, they reached the island of Igloolik 

 at the eastern entrance, and there they passed the 

 winter, Igloolik being an important Eskimo settlement, 

 with four fixed places of residence on it, to which as the 

 season changes the natives move in rotation. From 

 this island, as the health of the men did not permit of 

 his venturing to spend another winter in the ice, Parry 

 retraced his route and returned to England. 



The ships dropped anchor in the Thames on Trafalgar 

 Day, 1823. Next year, on the 19th of May, they were 

 off again to the north to seek a passage to the west 

 down Prince Regent Inlet, Parry in the Hecla, Hoppner 

 in the Fury. It was a bad season. The ships were 

 late in leaving Baffin Bay and were hindered by new 

 ice in Lancaster Sound. So far from reaching the 

 strait discovered two years before, they could get no 

 further south than Port Bowen, in 73 12', where they 

 spent the winter in a singularly barren part of Cockburn 

 Land. Starting in July they went down to Cresswell 

 Bay, the ships being forced by the weather and the ice 

 to work as is not unusual under such circumstances 

 in almost every possible direction within every mile, 

 their track as shown in the illustration being most 

 complicated. The end of it all was that the Fury was 

 wrecked and her stores carefully taken out and left, on 

 what was named Fury Beach, for the use of future 

 callers in want of them. And the Hec/a came home 

 alone. 



Four years afterwards Captain John Ross, anxious 



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