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4.3. Map of leading to the North Pole, now called Robeson Channel, 

 thesis PetS- reaching a latitude of 82 16' N. on the 3oth, where 

 abolishing there was a water horizon to the north-east. The Polaris 

 strait. wintered at Thank God Bay, in 81 38' N., where 



. 



$. Polar Captain Hall died on November 8th, 1871. In the 



iscoveres 



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Hail. summer of 1872 the Polaris vt&s drifted out into Eamns 



Washington . 



chart. Bay, and, by an accident, one of the boats, with sixteen 

 (A,) ' souls, including Eskimos, was separated from the ship. 

 tii dr h ift r of f They drifted on the ice, during the winter, down the 

 boat. Peter- whole length of -Baffin's Bay, and were eventually 





(R.G.S.) picked up off the coast of Labrador in 53 35' N. on 

 the 29th of April, 1873. The Polaris, with the remainder of the 

 crew, passed the second winter off Littleton Island, near the 

 entrance of Smith Sound. 



35. In the summer of 1873 Commander A. H. Markham, R.N.. 

 now of H.M.S. Alert, undertook a voyage to Baffin's Bay and 

 the Gulf of the Boothia with Captain Adams, in the whaler 



< ^ ft ** e obtained several deep-sea soundings, made 

 r some corrections in the trend of the coast, line on the 

 aS'(G?M.j soutn S ^e of Barrow Strait, and in Cresswell Bay on 

 the coast of North Somerset, and corrected the position of 

 Point Garry. The Arctic brought home the remnant of the crew 

 of the Polaris, arriving at Dundee in September, 1873. 



36. A recently-published circumpolar chart will show the 

 .17. circum- results of all these difficult and hazardous voyages and 

 bj Stanford, journeys, and will also show how much remains to be 



done. A vast area is still blank : and it is the object 



/,8. Track of . ... 



ti& Alert of the Arctic Expedition, which is now enduring the 



across the 



AUantic. rigours of a winter in the far north, to fill in the most 

 51 New interesting portion, namely, that which intervenes 

 chartof* 7 between the present threshold of the unknown region, 



Baffin'sBay. and the ^^ -p^ Q f Qm ^^ The ^^ ^ p^ 



Track of covery sailed from Portsmouth on the 2Qth of May, 

 1875, an d, after a stormy voyage across the Atlantic, 



