]Vork Up ioioards Cajie Parry. 



September C. — Light airs still continued with clear weather. 

 Advancing slowly to the south, I landed in the morning with 

 Captain Sabine, at a headland which we considered to be the 

 Cape Broer Ruys of the old charts. We ascended the moun- 

 tain, which we ascertained by barometrical measurement to be 

 nearly 8000 feet high. Having observed for the latitude we 

 returned on board. 



September 7.— Still calm, wc stood into a large bay to the 

 south of Cape Broer Ruys, which, in compliment to Mr Henry 

 Foster, I named Foster's Bay ; at the bottom of it several inlets 

 or fiords were observed. Passed within an island which answers 

 to the situation of the Bontekoe Island of the Dutch charts. We 

 passed several icebergs fifty or sixty feet in height. 



September 8. — Kept running along the edge of the land-ice, 

 which extended from the shore five or six miles; at noon sent a 

 boat to observe for the latitude on the ice, and to take bearings 

 of the land. Latitude observed 72° 31^ N. In the afternoon 

 we kept working up towards Cape Parry, discovered by Mr 

 Scoresby last summer, in a narrow line of water, the floes being 

 much closer than usual. At seven, when between two floes which 

 were about 100 yards asunder, they suddenly closed together 

 before the ship could be backed out ; she was pressed by the 

 tongues that projected underneath from each, and lifted abaft 

 considerably out of the water. Her weight immediately broke 

 the tongues with an immense crash, we then backed her out, and 

 made her fast to the land-ice for the night. The fine weather 



observation was in 72 degrees 38 minutes, and changing our course, the wind 

 at SE. a prettie gale. This morning, when it cleared up, we saw land trend- 

 ing neere hand ENE. and WNW. esteeming ourselves from it twelve 

 leagues : it was a mayne high land, nothing at all covered with snow, and the 

 north part of that mayne high land was very high mountains, but we could 

 see no snow upon theui. We accounted by our observation the part of the 

 mayne land lay neerest hand in 73 degrees. • • • • • 



"On the one-and-twentieth day in the morning while we steered our course 

 NNE. we thought we had embayed ourselves, finding land upon our larboard 

 and ice upon it, and many great pieces of drift-ice. We steered away NE. 

 with diligent look out every cleare day for land, having a desire to know 

 whether it would leave us to the cast, both to know the breadth of the sea 

 and also to shape a more northerly course. And considering wo knew no 

 name given to this land, we thought good to name it Uold-wUh-Hope, lying 

 in 73 degrees of laliludc."— Emion. 



