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left of the installation, piece by piece, out of the ship, 

 laying it on the ice, and leaving it there. 



Iloss was to be accompanied by the whaler John, but 

 the men mutinied and refused to start, so that he went 

 on from Loch Ryan alone. The following year the 

 crew of the John, then on a whaling voyage in Baffin 

 Bay, again mutinied, killed the master, put the mate 

 adrift in a boat in the manner of Henry Hudson, and 

 lost the ship on the western coast, where most of them 

 were drowned. 



With the Krusenstcrn, a boat of eighteen tons, in 

 tow, Ross crossed the Atlantic, sighting Sanderson's 

 Hope on the 29th of July, having left Scotland six 

 weeks before. Early in August he sailed through 

 Lancaster Sound, and, taking the opportunity of 

 removing his Croker's Mountains to the north-east 

 corner of North Somerset, went down Prince Regent 

 Inlet to Fury Beach. After completing his provisions 

 for twenty-seven months from the stores left behind by 

 Parry, he crossed Cresswell Bay, passed Cape Garry, 

 Parry's farthest south, on the 15th of August, and 

 next day, Sunday, " I went on shore," he says, " with 

 all the officers, to take formal possession of the new- 

 discovered land ; and at one o'clock, being a few minutes 

 after seven in London, the colours were displayed with 

 the usual ceremony, and the health of the King drunk, 

 together with that of the founder of our expedition, 

 after whom the land was named." 



" From the highest part of this land, which was 

 upwards of a hundred feet above the level of the sea," 

 he continues, " we had a good view of the bay and the 

 adjoining shores, and had the satisfaction to find that 



