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ships were carried with it to some short distance, 

 when the Hecla, after thus driving about a mile, 

 quite close to the shore, struck the ground forcibly 

 several times, and being brought up by it, remained 

 immovable. The Fury, continuing to drive, u was 

 now irresistibly carried past us, and we escaped, 

 only by a few feet, the damage invariably occa- 

 sioned by ships coming in contact under such cir- 

 cumstances." She drove about three hundred yards, 

 the ice pressing her on as well as along the shore, 

 when she received a severe shock from a large 

 floe-piece, forcing her directly against a grounded 

 mass of ice upon the beach. The Hecla and Fury 

 continued both aground, the latter, by Hoppner's 

 report, so severely " nipped ' and strained, as to 

 leak a good deal ; and that she was heavily pressed 

 both upon the ground and against the huge mass of 

 ice. Both ships, however, got off at high-water ; but 

 on the night of the 2nd August the ice once more 

 forced the Fury on shore, and the Hecla narrowly 

 escaped. 



" I rowed on board the Fury," says Parry, " and 

 found four pumps constantly going, to keep the 

 ship free, and Commander Hoppner, his officers and 

 men, almost exhausted with the incessant labour of 

 the last eight-and-forty hours." The two com- 

 manders set out in a boat to survey the shore to the 

 southward, in search of a place where the Fury, 

 unable to proceed any further without repairs, 



