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the south-eastern part of Lady Franklin Bay, where 

 the close, heavy pack brought her to a stop within 

 eight miles of her destination. She had come seven 

 hundred miles from Upernivik in less than a week, and, 

 faced by ice twenty to fifty feet thick, she had to wait 

 another seven days before she got into Discovery 

 Harbour. Here the party landed and a house was 

 built, and dissension arose which ended in one of the 

 company returning in the ship and another endeavouring 

 to do so and being too late, so that he had to remain as 

 a sort of tolerated volunteer. Two others were sent 

 away as being physically unfit ; but, making up for 

 these, were two Eskimos engaged at Upernivik. 



Preliminary sledging began at once, and in the spring 

 the two great efforts were made. The doctor's, towards 

 the Pole, left on the 19th of March and got adrift on 

 a floe from which the party escaped with the loss of 

 their tent, provisions, and some of their instruments. 

 According to Greely's report : " The farthest latitude 

 attained by this party is given by Dr. Pavy as 82 50', 

 it being estimated, as no observations for time, magnetic 

 declination, or latitude were made at any period during 

 his absence." 



On the 3rd of April, Lockwood with twelve men 

 left for the coast of Greenland. Up to Newman Bay 

 four men had been sent back as unfit for field-work. 

 On the 16th, when the party started from here for the 

 north-east, Lockwood and Christiansen, the Eskimo, 

 were in advance hauling about eight hundred pounds 

 with a team of eight dogs, a three-men sledge follow- 

 ing, and then two two-men sledges ; at Cape Bryant 

 the men-sledges were sent back, and Lockwood, 



