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distance, and scudded over the icy plains ; to the eye in undulating 

 lines of downy softness — to the flesh in showers of piercing darts." 



The storm now caused them to run for life to an elevation of 

 3000 feet lower before they stopped, when the wind was less 

 severe, and the temperature 12° higher. Next day they reached 

 Port Foulke without any serious accident, the latter part of their 

 journey being wholly by moonlight. Hayes' journey was under- 

 taken at much too late a period of the year ; but still, so far as it 

 went, it was conducted with all the esprit and reckless courage in 

 which his nation has never been wanting, either in battle or in 

 geographical exploration, which demands bravery of a calmer and 

 more enduring description. "My Brother John's Glacier" pro- 

 jects into a valley, about 2 miles from the coast, towards which it 

 is gradually approaching. Hayes' measurements show that it is 

 moving seaward at a very rapid rate, viz. 94 feet in 8 months. 

 This will, however, vary according to the season, the nature of the 

 ground traversed, and other mechanical and physical causes. 



5. Bae's attempted Journey in 1860. — While Hayes was struggling 

 into winter-quarters in Smith Sound, an English surveying 

 steamer, under the command of Captain Allen Young, was searching 

 the South Greenland fjords, in connection with a projected Atlantic 

 telegraph-cable to be laid via Iceland and Greenland. This project 

 has long ago passed into the limbo of forgotten schemes, now that 

 the Altantic is traversed by two submarine cables, but during this 

 survey (in the Fox) an attempt was made to penetrate the interior 

 of Greenland : attached to the expedition and in charge of the land 

 party was Dr. John Eae — already most deservedly famous as an 

 Arctic explorer. The expedition reached Fredrikshaab from Ice- 

 land on the 2nd of October, and, on the 24th, while the fjord of 

 Igalliko was being sounded, Dr. Rae considered that a short journey 

 should be made to the interior of the country for the purpose of 

 ascertaining the practicability of travelling over it. The use of 

 one seaman and a whale-boat was obtained from Captain Young to 

 enable the party to return from the head of the fjord to Julianehaab. 

 Four Eskimo women — who in South Greenland are commonly 

 engaged in such labour — were engaged as rowers. They never 

 reached the inland ice ; for, after travelling through a miry 

 and boulder-covered valley 16 miles in from the head of the fjord, 

 a heavy fall of snow stopped further travel, and they returned, 

 after an absence of four days, to their boat — not, however, before 

 the fjord was frozen up for several miles — and with much difficulty 

 they reached the Fox. 



Mr. Whympers Expedition in 1867. — Towards the end of July 1867, 



