In tin An tic //' gions. 4C7 



bay, which I have had the pleasure of naming after 

 my friend Captain Beaufort, R.X., and which was 

 then covered with ice. We had also the happinec 

 finding a channel that led to seaward, which enabled 

 as to get on the outside of the reef; but as we pushed 

 as close as we could to the border of the packed ice, 

 our situation, for the next four hours, wa*B attended 

 with no little anxiety. The appearance of the clouds 

 bespoke the return of fog, and we were sailing with a 

 strong breeze through narrow channels, between heavy 

 pieces of drift ice, on the outside of a chain of i 

 that Btretched across Beaufort Bay, which we knew 

 could not be approached within a mile, owing to the 

 shallowness of the water. 



At six in the evening, the party passed the termi- 

 nation of the British chain of mountains, and the next 



day came in Bight of the Bomerzoff chain, continuing 



iii boats along the shore. On the 7th of August, Fi- 



loxman Island was reached. J n coasting along the 



Polar Sea, the Expedition was greatly troubled by 



the den which almost put an end to traveling. 



On the Kith day of August, tic forces of the party 



were turned homeward to the winter quarter, at Fori 

 Franklin, near Bear Lake River — which place they 

 reached hi Tim -1\ — after traveling 



in three months, 12048 statute mi: Richardson 



had arrived witli the Eastern detachment of the Ex- 



