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therefore, moored, in order to put on board her as 

 much bread, flour, wine, spirits, sugar, cocoa, &c, 

 as she could stow, after which the heap is said to 

 have been scarcely diminished. There is some rea- 

 son to believe, that this precious deposit of stores 

 was one great cause of Ross having taken this 

 route; though he told the Committee it was in 

 search of what had been agitated the last 200 

 years, and also that the object was to decide whe- 

 ther there was that passage, to which Captains Parry 

 and Franklin had devoted their attention. But he 

 moreover told the Committee — " I should not have 

 been justified in going, if I had not known that the 

 stores of the Fury were in Prince Regent's Inlet." 

 He knew of what they consisted from Parry, and 

 might perhaps have been in possession of an in- 

 voice of the whole, amounting, it is said, to three 

 years' consumption. 



By the end of September the Victory reached a 

 harbour on the south-east corner of the land, which 

 she had been coasting, and to which, out of grati- 

 tude, Ross gave the name of Boothia; but the 

 northern part of this coast, for about a hundred 

 miles, had been named by Captain Parry, North 

 Somerset, and it was about two hundred more to 

 the harbour, to which was given the name of Felix 



and here the Victory was frozen up for the winter, 



and remained fast bound up just twelve months. 



This is all stated before the Committee, a portion 



