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form should be kept and made imperative, at all 

 times and in all places, on board every ship of war. 

 The expedition continued its course westerly, among 

 patches of ice and in a foggy atmosphere, giving 

 names to small islands, bays, and headlands as they 

 occurred ; and on the 4th of September Parry ob- 

 serves : — 



" We had the satisfaction of crossing the meridian of 

 110° W. from Greenwich, in the latitude of 74° 44' 20", 

 by which his Majesty's ships under my orders became en- 

 titled to the sum of five thousand pounds, being the reward 

 offered by the King's Order in Council, grounded on a late 

 Act of Parliament, to such . of his Majesty's subjects as 

 might succeed in penetrating thus far to the westward with- 

 in the Arctic Circle." — p. 7'2. 



To the bluff head, where the observation was 

 made, the men gave the name of Bounty Cape, a 

 very appropriate name, after the gallant Commander 

 had announced to them officially that their exer- 

 tions had so far been crowned with success as to 

 entitle them to this reward. 



On the 5th of September, after having worked 

 their way along the southern coast of the largest 

 island of the group they had recently passed, the 

 boats landed, for the second time, in a bay which, 

 for its soundings and shelter, appeared the most 

 safe and convenient that had occurred to anchor in ; 

 and, accordingly, the Bay of the Hecla and Griper, 

 so named by Parry, became the first spot where the 

 expedition had dropped anchor, since leaving the 

 coast of Norfolk. Considering the advanced period 



