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extremely fortunate during tlie voyage, not liaving lost a man 

 either by disease or accident." ;j 



The following is another account. 



The expedition was delayed in the summer of 1824 in getting 

 across Baffin's Bay by a most extraordinary accumulation of 

 ice ; and it was not before the 9th of September that they 

 passed that barrier. 



On the 26th of September 1824, they arrived at the en- 

 trance of Prince Regent's Inlet : after two or three days of 

 bad weather and obstruction from the ice, they got into Port 

 Bowen: and on the 1st of October the ships were safely 

 placed in their positions for the winter. During the spring of 

 1825, parties of discovery were sent under Captain Hoppner 

 inland to the eastward ; under Lieutenant Sherer along the 

 coast to the southward ; and under Lieutenant Ross to the 

 northward. Lieutenant Sherer reached Fitzgerald-bay in 

 72° 20', and Lieutenant Ross pi'oceeded beyond Cape York, 

 in 73° 30'. 



The ships sailed from Port Bowen on the 20th of last July, 

 and on the 22d were driven back again to nearly Prince 

 Leopold's Islands, in Lancaster Sound : on the 24th they got 

 hold of Cape Seppings, on the western entrance of the Re- 

 gent's Inlet, and they worked down the vi^estern shore till the 

 1st of August, when the Fury was forced on shore by masses 

 of ice ; she however was got off, and hove down for repair a 

 little further to the southward ; but on the 23d of August 

 they Avere forced, in consequence of increased severity of 

 weather, to abandon her. Her officers and men were re- 

 moved into the Hecla, (which had also been in great danger,) 

 and Captain Parry felt himself under the necessity of return- 

 ing to England, and accordingly stood to the northward, and 

 on the 27tii anchored in Niell's Harbour, a little to the south- 

 ward of Port Bowen. After two or three days spent in re- 

 fitting, they sailed again on their way homewards, and on the 

 17th of September got through the ice and passed the arctic 

 circle. On the 10th of October they made the Orkneys. 



Only two men were lost during the whole voyage — one 

 drowned, and one by disease. The health, spirits, and disci- 

 pline ol' both ships' companies were excellent all through. 



Letters have been received at Earl Bathurst's office from 

 Cajitain Franklin, stating the arrival of the expedition under 

 iiis orders at Lake Winnipeg, early in .June, from whence they 

 intended to jjroceed to Bear Lake. The persons composing 



the 



