" NORTH STAR." 14U 



cross over to Lancaster Sound, and his ship be- 

 coming involved in the ice about the same date 

 that the " Enterprise " and " Investigator " were 

 caught in the pack, drifted with it the whole of 

 September, until on the last day of that month she 

 was providentially driven into Wolstenholme Sound, 

 where there being a pool of open water she was at 

 length extricated. There the ship wintered in lat. 

 76° 33' N., long. 68° 56J' W., being the most 

 northerly position in which any vessel has been 

 known to have been laid up. February was the 

 coldest month, and the thermometer on two oc- 

 casions marked 63^°, and once 64 J°, of Fahrenheit 

 below zero. 



On the 1st of August, 1850, the " North Star" was 

 hauled out of the cove in which she had remained 

 ten months, and on the 8th she had crossed over to 

 Possession Bay, which was examined. Mr. Saun- 

 ders next proceeded to Whaler Point, Port Bowen, 

 Jackson's Inlet, and Port Ncill ; but being prevented 

 from landing his provisions at any of these places 

 by the heavy landnoes of old ice, he bore up for 

 Pond's Bay, and succeeded in depositing his cargo 

 on Wollaston Island. 



Meanwhile the search was proceeding from the 

 quarter of Beering's Straits. Captain Kellett in 

 the " Herald," on July 25th, 1849, after examining 

 TVainwright's Inlet, despatched Lieutenant Pullen 



