CXX GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



by the way to procure tlogs, of which twenty-four were taken 

 on board at Godhaven and twenty more at Ritenbeck. 



On the 17th the Alert and Discovery left Ritenbeck, and 

 the Valorous started on her voyage homeward. 



On the 19th of July the two former vessels reached the 

 little Danish settlement of Proven, where Esquimau Hans, 

 well known in connection with the Polaris expedition, was 

 engaged. Fortunately for the expedition, he consented to 

 go without his wife and children, thus relieving it from a 

 very considerable burden. Here, also, some additional dogs 

 were procured, bringing the total number up to sixty-one. 



Information was here obtained in regard to the condition 

 of the ice, and it was learned that the whalers had not been 

 able to get through Melville Bay at first, but that they man- 

 aged to accomplish this on a second attempt in the second 

 week of June. 



Leaving Proven on the 21st of July, they reached ITperna- 

 vik on the 22d, and, after remaining only two hours, sailed 

 at 8 A.M. of the same day. These are the latest advices 

 received from the expedition, which is now doubtless in 

 comfortable winter-quarters, engaged in prosecuting the re- 

 searches assigned to it. 



The Pandora, under command of Captain Young, which 

 sailed in the spring for the purpose of making additional 

 discoveries in regard to the northwest passage, and partic- 

 ularly to obtain further relics of Sir John Franklin, returned 

 to England on the 16th of October, without having accom- 

 plished her mission. She expects, however, to start out 

 again in the coming spring. 



Disco was reached on the Yth of August, and Upernavik 

 on the 13th, and Cape York on the 16th. The vessel called 

 at the Carey Islands and deposited letters for the Alert and 

 Discovery, and thence proceeded up Lancaster Sound to 

 Beechey Island, which was reached on the 26th. Here 

 Northumberland House, which was built as a storehouse by 

 the North Star in 1850, was inspected, and it was found 

 that it had been broken open by bears and many of the 

 stores damaged, except those in casks and barrels. The two 

 life-boats and the yacht Mary, left by Sir John Ross, were 

 found in perfect condition. 



After putting the depot in order, Captain Young proceed- 



