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to the Mackenzie; and afterwards, in standing 

 along the margin of the ice, discovered a group of 

 high islands on the Asiatic coast in lat. 71° 20' N., 

 long. 175° 16' W., with extensive and very high 

 land to the north of them deeply seated in the ice.* 

 Commander Moore, also, in the " Plover," made 

 several attempts to penetrate to the eastward at 

 this time, and not succeeding, returned first to 

 Kotzebue Sound, and subsequently to Norton 

 Sound, where he wintered. 



Lieutenant (now Commander) Pullen, accom- 

 panied by Mr. Hooper, mate, and twelve men, per- 

 formed the coasting voyage to the Mackenzie in 

 two 27-foot whale-boats. He was convoyed past 

 Point Barrow by the " Herald's" pinnace named 

 the " Owen," and the Royal Thames Yacht- Club 

 schooner, the " Nancy Dawson." The latter was 

 owned and commanded by Mr. Shedden, a mate of 

 the Royal Navy, who had come thus far with his 

 small craft, solely at his own expense, to prosecute 

 the search for the discovery ships, and who, though 

 he was in the last stage of consumption, was not 

 prevented by the languor of the disease, which 

 carried him off two months afterwards, from giving 

 most efficient aid to Lieutenant Pullen. 



* Captain Smyth suggests that this land may be that reached 

 by Sergeant Andreyer in 1762, which he reported to be in- 

 habited by a people named Kraihai. 



