1875 LEAVE HAYES SOUND. 73 



CHAPTEE V. 



RE-ENTER SMITH SOUND — CAUGHT IN THE PACK — ESCAPE — CAPE VIC- 

 TORIA — FRANKLIN PIERCE BAY — WALRUS — NORMAN LOCKTER ISLAND 

 CAPE HAWKS — WASHINGTON IRVING ISLAND — DOBBIN BAY — DOG- 

 SICKNESS — PERILOUS POSITION OF SHIPS — BOUNDING CAPE FRAZER. 



Shortly after noon of the 6 th, as soon as Captain 

 Stephenson and I had returned on board our respec- 

 tive ships, we made sail with a southerly wind blowing 

 off the land, and ran back to the eastward out of Hayes 

 Sound and Buchanan Strait. As we advanced, the 

 water-channel between Ellesmere Land and the pack 

 which rested against the south shore of Bache Island 

 widened considerably, until off Cape Camperdown only 

 a few patches of detached floe-pieces remained, where 

 three days previously not a pool of water existed. To 

 the eastward there was much water with an ice-blink on 

 the horizon pointing out the position of the main pack. 

 Arriving off Cape Albert, a great number of icebergs 

 and heavy pieces of ice were observed, either lying 

 aground on a bank or collected together by eddy 

 currents. The wind dying away, steam was raised, and 

 we advanced quickly to the northward with light hearts, 

 looking in vain for the channel reported to run between 

 Capes Albert and Victoria, dividing Bache Island into 

 two. We satisfied ourselves that no channel exists there. 



