Had the expedition become cliecked in its earlier 

 career, Sir James Ross proceeding up Davis' Straits 

 might expect to fall in Avitli the party. Were it stopped 

 between the eastern and western channels leading to 

 the Polar Sea, some of Tranklin's people in that case 

 would probably be despatched to the northern conti- 

 nent of America ; it was necessary, therefore, to send 

 an expedition thither; this was undertaken by Sir 

 John Richardson. A third locality remained, which 

 it would have been imprudent to neglect. Conjecturing 

 the entrance and medium passage to the westward to 

 have been accomplished, exit had yet to be made by 

 a region little visited, of which the great opening from 

 the North Pacific into the Arctic Ocean, known as 

 Behring's Strait, claimed paramount attention. 



Por the last-named quarter H. M. S. "Plover," under 

 Commander T. E. L. Moore (an officer peculiarly fitted 

 for this charge by his previous experience in Arctic 

 and Antarctic travel), set sail from Plymouth on the 

 30th January, 1848. 



I do not desire to enter here upon a recital of 

 either the fitting out or our voyage through regions 

 interesting indeed, but already well known. Suffice 

 it to say that after touching at Madeira and the 

 Palklands,, rounding Cape Horn and visiting Callao, 

 we arrived at Honolulu, the capital of Woahu, 



