152 SIR J. RICHARDSON, 1848— DR. RAE, 1851. 



after the longest voyage ever performed in boats on the Polar Sea, 

 viz., 1408 geographical miles. The boats were left at the Bloody 

 Falls, and the land journey to the Great Bear Lake commenced. 

 On the 24th the Dease Kiver was reached, where they found 

 a boat awaiting them, and Fort Confidence was reached the same 

 afternoon. 



Sir John Bichardson and Dr. Baes Voyage down the Mackenzie 

 and along the Coast to the Coppermine River in 1848. — Leaving 

 Liverpool on March 25th, they reached New York in a fortnight, 

 and proceeded to Montreal ; and from thence to the Sault St. 

 Marie, where they were detained some days, awaiting the breaking 

 up of the ice on Lake Superior. Cumberland House was reached 

 on June 15th, and the Mackenzie on the 15th of July. The 

 sea was reached on the 4th of August. On the 22nd they were 

 detained by the ice at Point Cockburn ; and it was only at the end 

 of the month that they reached a bay between Capes Hearne and 

 Kendall, where the boats were abandoned. Setting out on foot on 

 September 3rd, and upon the 13th day reached Port Confidence. 



Dr. Baes Journey to the Coast in 1851. — Leaving Fort Confidence 

 on April 25th, with two men, on May 1st he reached the Polar 

 Sea, near the mouth of the Coppermine. On the 4th they gained 

 Port Lockyer, where they found some wood for cooking. On the 

 9th they reached lat. 68° 38', and long. 110° 2'. Eeturning to the 

 west, Douglas Island was gained on the 15th, and drift-wood found. 

 Crossing over to Wollaston Land on the 16th, Eskimo were fallen 

 in with near Cape Hamilton ; they had abundance of seals' flesh. 

 On the 22nd, lat. 70° 0' and long. 117° 17' was gained, and called Cape 

 Baring. Eeturning to the eastward on the 24th, on the 30th the 

 Dolphin and Union Strait was crossed to Cape Krusentern in as 

 direct a line as the rough ice would admit. On June 4th Bichard- 

 son Bay was reached. The consumption of food in 33 days was 

 54 lbs. of flour, 128 lbs. of pemmican, 1^ lb. of tea, 2 lbs. of chocolate, 

 and 10 lbs. of sugar : no tent was carried. Leaving the coast on the 

 5th, the Kendall was reached on the 10th. The total distance 

 travelled over from Fort Confidence is 942 miles. 1 



Second Journey. — On June 13th, three days after his arrival, the 

 boats joined him at the Kendall Eiver from Fort Confidence, having 

 occupied 6^ days in the voyage. On the 15th the Coppermine was 

 reached ; but the ice did not clear away until the 28th, and the sea 



1 On recomputing the distance, I make it 1100 miles, or about 25 miles per day, 

 including three days' detention. — J. R. 



