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she swung to the wind ; on the 28th the temperature of sea at 

 surface was 34-5°, hut it was not until August 5th the ship was 

 able to proceed to sea. The ice resting on the shore on either side, 

 detained her within sight of Winter -Harbour until the 8th of 

 September, during which time whales were seen and seals were 

 numerous. Entering Prince Albeit Sound, it was on the 13th 

 found to be a gulf and not a strait. Having now discovered that 

 Wollaston, Victoria, and Prince Albert Land are all one, it was 

 determined to enter the Dolphin and Union Strait, which was done 

 on September 17th. Sutton and Liston Islands were reached on the 

 20th with very little obstruction from the ice, and on the following 

 day Cape Krusentern was passed. On the 22nd, by a slant of wind, 

 72 miles were made ; and when the ship was anchored the current 

 was found to set to the eastward, at one time as much as 1 knot 

 per hour. On the 23rd Cape Franklin was seen ; and in the evening 

 we unfortunately got aground in Byron Bay. On the following 

 morning, on opening Wellington Bay, the wind freshened ; and in- 

 creasing to a gale, we ran back to the westward, where there was 

 more room, and underwent an equinoctial gale under close-reefed 

 topsails, with the thermometer at 11°. The sea froze as it lodged ; 

 and it was late in the forenoon of the next day before the ice that 

 had made on board the ship during the night was cleared away. 

 Passing through the Finlayson group on the 26th, Cambridge Bay 

 was gained on the 27th ; but the water shoaling suddenly, we 

 struck the ground, and remained fast until the ice set sufficiently 

 firm to allow of our removing everything out of the ship to the 

 shore; and the tides taking off, it was not until October 15th 

 that we got the ship afloat. 



On crossing over to the Continent with a sleigh, in October, the 

 ice was found so rotten in the neighbourhood of Cape Trap that we 

 could not land. The mean temperature of the quarter ending 

 December 1852 was found to be 5° lower than that experienced 

 last year, though we were 2i° further south. The sleighs left the 

 ship on the 12th of April, and crossing over the Colborne Peninsula 

 came upon the sea-ice near Kae Inlet the following day. On the 

 23rd, in lat. 69° 10', long. 121° 20', came upon the junction of the 

 old and the new ice ; the former being so hummocky as to be im- 

 practicable for sleighs. After exploring to the north, north-east, and 

 north-west, and finding nothing but a confused jumble of angular 

 pieces, some of which were upwards of 20 feet high, and between 

 which the snow was so loose that you frequently sunk up to your 

 middle, it was determined to strike in fur the Victoria shore. By 

 unlading the sleighs, and carrying half-loads, Drift-wood Point (so 



