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30th, Point Barrow bore south-west by south, and there was open 

 water to the south, not more than 3 or 4 miles distant, which we 

 succeeded in warping into at 3.40 p.m., and, working between the ice 

 and the shore, reached Port Tangent at noon on the 31st. The 

 length of the passage from Cape Prince of Wales to Point Barrow 

 is 13^ da} T s, during which we were 4^ days beset in the pack. The 

 total amount of current in the same time is N. 73° E. 172 miles, or 

 12-7 miles per day. 



H.M.S. Daedalus, Captain "Wellesley, after encountering much 

 difficulty with the ice in the neighbourhood of St. Lawrence Island, 

 reached Port Clarence on July 15th. The Plover, after receiving 

 supplies, proceeded north, but, finding the pack very far south, 

 returned to her winter-quarters in Port Clarence on the 28th of 

 August, the Dcedalus leaving for the south on the 1st of October. 



The Ampliitrite, Captain Frederick, with Comm r - Maguire and a 

 fresh crew for the Plover, arrived at Port Clarence on the 30th of 

 June. Leaving on the 12th, Comm r - Maguire proceeded to the 

 north, and went up to Point Barrow in the boats, when a rapid 

 survey of the harbour was made, and sufficient depth of water for 

 the Plover was found, he returned to that vessel, and succeeded 

 in placing her in winter-quarters at Point Barrow on the 21st 

 of August, and was frozen in on the 24th of September. Before 

 being frozen in he succeeded in his boats in searching the coast to 

 the eastward as far as the Keturn Reef of Franklin. 



The Plover did not get clear of her winter-quarters at Point 

 Barrow until the 7th of August, and on the 11th of the same 

 month fell in with the Ampliitrite, Captain Frederick, and, after 

 replenishing her provisions, returned to Point Barrow on Septem- 

 ber 7th. In attempting to prosecute the search easterly, an armed 

 body of Indians of the Koyukun tribe were met with, and were so 

 hostile that he was compelled to return; otherwise ho would, in all 

 probability, have reached the Enterprise, which vessel was stopped 

 by the ice in Camden Bay, about 80 miles from the furthest point 

 reached by him. 



The Plover cleared her winter-quarters on July 19th, and, having 

 received fresh supplies from II.M.S. Trincomalee, returned to Point 

 Barrow on August 28th, being in no way impeded by tho ice. The 

 same evening tho Enterprise arrived from tho southward. This 

 latter vessel, which had wintered in lat. 70° 8', long. 145° 29' w., 

 245 miles to tho eastward of Point Barrow, where she was beset on 

 September 16th, and frozen in on the 2Gth in tho pack in Camden 

 I>ay, 4 miles from the shore. 



On the 10th of July the whale-boat of the Enterprise under the 



