CHAPTER XII 

 SMITH SOUND 



Captain Inglefield Dr. Kane The open Polar Sea Hans Hendrik the 

 Greenlander Kalutuuah the Eskimo An Eskimo bear-hunt A lesson 

 in catching auks Dr. Hayes His journey over the glacier Tyndall 

 Glacier Captain C. F. Hall Joe and Hannah Voyage of the Po/aris 

 Drift of the Polaris The voyage on the ice-floe The British Government 

 Expedition of 1875 The Alert and Dia<'overyT\\Q cairn on Washington 

 Irving Island Discovery Harbour How the Alert got into safety at 

 Floeberg Beach Low temperatures Nares on sledging Description of 

 the sledges and their burden Markham starts for the Pole Reaches 

 83 D 20' 26" Outbreak of scurvy Parr's walk Aldrich's journey west 

 Beaumont's journey east The perilous homeward voyage. 



EDY FRANKLIN, who incidentally did so much 

 for Arctic discovery, sent out the Isabel in 1852 

 under Commander, afterwards Sir, Edward Augustus 

 Inglefield to search for her husband to the north of 

 Baffin Bay. Unlike John Ross, the names of whose 

 ships, Isabella and Alexander, are borne by the capes 

 at its entrance, he found Smith Sound to be the high- 

 way to the north. Steaming up the open water 

 " stretching through seven points of the compass," 

 noting the coasts as he went, he was turned back by the 

 ice in 78 28', at the entrance to the Kane Sea, with 

 Cairn Point and the way in to Rensselaer Harbour on 

 his right, and Cape Sabine and Ellesmere Land, which 

 he named, on his left ; the furthest north he sighted 

 being Cape Louis Napoleon, the furthest east Cape 

 Frederick VII, now known as Cape Russell. Needless 



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