i8 A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 



Bay (between Cape York and lat. 75 N.) she 

 drifted a distance of nearly 1400 miles through 

 Baffin Bay before getting free 1 . On returning 

 from the expedition, which had been successfully 

 accomplished, the 'Fox' was sold to a firm at 

 Copenhagen for sealing off Spitsbergen, and after- 

 wards passed into English hands as a surveying 

 ship in connexion with a projected cable between 

 America, Greenland, and Iceland. Later the yacht 

 was used as a cargo boat by the owners of the 

 cryolite mine in South Greenland and by them 

 sold to the Danish Government for coastal service. 

 In 1912 she was placed temporarily at the disposal 

 of a Swiss Expedition on the west coast, the mem- 

 bers of which erected a monument a large metal 

 gas cylinder in memory of the ' Fox' (' Til Minde 

 om Fox') on the rocks near Jakobshavn (Map 

 5, J). On returning from the expedition she ran 

 aground but was refloated and eventually reached 

 Godhavn, where she was condemned as unfit for 

 further service. The Director of the Arctic Station, 

 with his motor-boat, towed the 'Fox' to her last 

 resting-place in 1913. 



A more remarkable instance of southerly drifting 

 of ice from North Greenland is worth recalling. 

 An ice-floe carrying nineteen persons, including 

 nine Eskimoes, from the ill-fated American ship 

 'Polaris,' which was abandoned in Smith's Sound 

 in October, 1872, made a longer voyage than the 

 ' Fox' ; the party was picked up in April, 1873, f r ty 



1 The Voyage of the 'Fox 1 in the Arctic Seas, by Sir F. L. 

 M'Clintock, London, 1859. 



