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noisy, in their acknowledgments. " On taking 

 their departure," says Parry, " these good-hu- 

 moured and ever-cheerful people greeted us with 

 three cheers in the true Kabloona (English) style." 



Little deserving of notice occurred till the middle 

 of June, when the expedition also was prepar- 

 ing to depart to the northward, by cutting out 

 the ships from the ice, taking down the tents and 

 the observatory, and embarking the instruments; 

 but before they quitted Winter Island, after a resi- 

 dence of nine months, Commander Parry states, 

 " It becomes my painful duty to turn from these 

 busy occupations, where animation, cheerfulness, 

 and hope prevailed, to the sad and solemn scenes of 

 sickness and of death ; for with both of these did 

 it please the Almighty to visit us at this period." 

 Two seamen, Souter and Reid, in Parry's ship 

 died ; and one, Pringle, in Lyon's. They were 

 buried in the same grave ; the former with a hand- 

 some tomb of stone and mortar over it, and a slab 

 with a suitable inscription of the same kind over 

 the latter. 



It was not till the 2nd of July that the ships 

 were moved out of their winter's dock ; and they 

 put to sea on the 8 th, with no very favourable 

 auspices of what was to befal them in their pro- 

 gress to the northward, along the eastern coast of 

 North America. The dangers that threatened them 

 at starting will be seen from Commander Lyon's 

 report : — 



