116 « PLOVER,' ' HEKALD,' 'INVESTIGATOR,' 'ENTERPRISE,' 1850. 



ahead, were crushed beneath the stem or thrown outwards off the 

 bows; then passing astern, piled in broken masses, 12 or 15 feet in 

 height, along the shore of the bay." The Plover left Kotzebue 

 Sound on July 17th and proceeded to the northward, leaving the 

 ship off Wainwright Inlet on the 23rd, in two boats. Captain 

 Moore reached Point Barrow on the 27th, and went round it as far 

 as Dease Inlet, and returned to Grantly Harbour, Port Clarence, on 

 the 30th, where she passed the third winter. 



The Herald left Oahu on the 24th of May, 1850, and reached 

 Kotzebue Sound on the 16th of July; and upon the 31st fell in 

 with the Investigator off Cape Lisburne, and returned to Port Clarence 

 on the 4th of Septembei*. 



The Investigator left Oahu on July 4th, passed through the Aleu- 

 tian chain of islands on the 20th, and reached Cape Lisburne on 

 the 29th. Entered the ice in lat. 72° 1' »., and long. 155° 12' w., 

 and at midnight on August 5th rounded Point Barrow in 73 fathoms 

 water, 10 miles from the land. They got into open water on the 

 American shore on the 7th, and landed at Port Drew on the 8th. 



The Enterprise left the Sandwich Islands on June 30th, and passed 

 through the Aleutian chain of islands on July 28th. East Cape 

 was reached on August 12th, the total set of the currents in the 

 intervening fifteen days being N. 49°, E. 127 miles. 



Proceeding north, the following table will show the daity position 

 of the ship at noon, and the current experienced in each 24 hours : — 



August 13 



„ 1* 



„ 15 



„ 16 



» " 



„ 18 



.. 19 



Longitude. 



6S-56 

 70-26 

 70-39 

 71-50 

 72-44 

 72-41 

 72-29 



166 

 162 

 160 

 160 

 159 

 158 

 158 



•19 



•48 



•6 



■36 



•03 



•52 



•49 



Current. 



N. 60° W. 19 miles. 



N. 21° E. 35 „ 



S. 83° E. 7 „ 



N. 3° W. 13 „ 



N. 28° W. 8 „ 

 W. 9-4 „ 



N. 10 ,. 



Passing Point Hope, Cape Lisburne, and Wainwright Inlet with- 

 out seeing anything of the Herald, Investigator, or Plover, the Enterprise 

 got up to the ice on the 16th, and pushing through some brash ice 

 entered an open lane, trending north-east and south-west, 10 miles 

 wide, up which she proceeded until she had gained a position north- 

 east by north 100 miles from Point Barrow, and had 45 fathoms 

 depth of water-mud. Here her progress was barred, and after 

 searching in vain for any opening on the southern side, she was 

 on the 21st within 30 miles of the land, without a prospect of 



