r. GEOGRAPHY. 241 



supplies of skins, coal, etc., from the Juniata^ she proceeded 

 northward the same day, and on the 14th of August discov- 

 ered the camp which the Polaris people had occupied the 

 previous winter, which was about sixty miles north of North- 

 umberland Island, or of the place where the party rescued 

 from the ice in the spring had been separated from the Po- 

 laris. 



Here information was obtained from the natives of the de- 

 parture in June of Captain Buddington and his party, and 

 of the sinking shortly after of the Polaris, Such of the pa- 

 pers and instruments of the Polaris as were worth removing 

 were brought away by the Tigress, which returned to God- 

 haven on the 25th of August. After being again coaled by 

 the Juniata, the search was resumed by running over to the 

 west coast, thence southward to the entrance of Cumberland 

 Sound, and back to the coast of Greenland, in the vicinity of 

 Ivigtut and Fiskenaes, searching in Davis Strait as long as 

 her coal lasted, and then going to St. John's, where she arrived 

 on the 16th of October, and learned of the rescue and arrival 

 in Scotland of the Polaris party. Leaving St. John's on the 

 19th of October, she reached New York November 9th. 



After the separation of the two portions of the original 

 Polaris party, as already stated, the vessel proved to have 

 received very serious injuries on the night of the 15th of Oc- 

 tober, when the separation took place, and it was with diffi- 

 culty that she could be kept afloat, and was finally beached 

 the following afternoon. As already stated, this took place 

 at Littleton Island, considerably to the north of the point 

 previously supposed to be its location. A look-out was kept 

 for the missing men, but without any signs presenting them- 

 selves ; and winter-quarters w^ere established on shore by 

 means of plank removed from the vessel, to which camp were 

 taken all the valuable articles of equipment. This was in lati- 

 tude 78 23', a locality which had been previously visited by 

 Kane and Hayes. 



A party of friendly Esquimaux rendered great service at 

 that time and through the winter. Early in the spring two 

 boats were built, luider the direction of Mr. Chester, upon 

 which the party embarked on the 3d of June, and on the 23d 

 they were picked up, south of Caj^e York, by the Pavejis- 

 craig, a whaling vessel, which transferred them to other ves- 



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