CHAPTER IX. 



PARRY'S POLAR VOYAGE. 



1827. 



Narrative of an Attempt to reach the North Pole in the Year 

 1827. By Captain W. E. Parry. 



When it is considered that Captain Parry, since 

 the year 1818, has made four voyages into the 

 Arctic seas, and has passed four winters in the ice, 

 and that we now find him again coming forward 

 in the year 1827 (having but just returned from his 

 last voyage), and proposing to Lord Melville a plan 

 of an attempt to reach the North Pole by means of 

 travelling with sledge-boats over the ice, # or 

 through any spaces of water that might occur — 

 this daring attempt brings back to our recollection 

 the extreme sufferings of Franklin and Richardson 

 on their first journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, 

 which did not deter them from immediately setting- 

 out a second time ; and that Franklin is now on 

 his voyage in search of a north-west passage — and 

 if to these we add the indefatigable labours of Sir 



* He adds in a note, " This plan, as originally proposed by 

 Captain Franklin, was given to me by Mr. Barrow soon after 

 my return from the expedition of 1824-25." 



