SECOND 

 VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY 



OF A 



NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 



CHAPTER I. 



PASSAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC REMOVAL OF STORES FROM THE XAl.TILr.> TRANSPORT, 



AT THE M.VRGIN OF THE ICE DEPARTURE OF THE NAUTILrS FOR ENGLAND ENTER 



THE ICE IN HVDSOyS STR.ilT — PERILOUS SITUATION OF THE HECLA, AND LOSS OF HER 

 ANCHOR MEET WITH THE HUDSON'S-BAY SHIPS — PASSAGE TTP THE STRAIT. AND COM- 

 MUNICATION WITH THE NATIVES INH.\BITING THE NORTHERN SHORES PASS THE 



TRIMTY ISLAyDS OP FOX ARRIVAL OFF SOUTHAMPTON ISLAND, WHERE THE RE- 

 SEARCHES OF THE EXPEDITION COMMENCE. 



J. HE FuRV, Hecla, and Nautilus Transport, were completed for sea towards 1S21. 

 the latter part of the month of April, and, on the 29th, at 10 A.M., the wind k^^^ 

 being from the eastward, with every appearance of its continuing, the Fury ^""' "°* 

 was taken in tow by the Eclipse steam-boat, which vessel had before taken 

 us down the river on a similar occasion. At two P.M., the Fury was moored 

 to the buoy atNorthflcct, and the Eclipse returned to Dcptford fur the other 

 ships. The Hecla reached the moorings on the following day, and the Nau- Mon. 30. 

 tiluson the 1st of May. The guns and ordnance-stores were here received Xues.'l. 

 on board, after which the ships immediately proceeded to the Little Nore 

 where they anchored on the 3d. I received my final instructions from the 

 Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on the 4tli, and set out for Sheerness 

 on the following day. On the 7th, the ships were visited by Rear- Admiral ^'<'"- "• 

 Sir John Gore, from whom we had, on this, as on the former occasion, re- 

 ceived every attention and assistance, which the greatest personal kindness, 



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