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booms, coals and stores. It was a most animated 

 scene, and every soul was fully employed. Casks 

 were landed by a hawser secured to the mast-head, 

 and set up to an anchor on the beach, the cas"ks 

 being hooked to a block traversing the hawser as a 

 jackstay, and made to run down it. Nothing could 

 exceed the spirit and alacrity of every individual. 

 The officers of the " Fury " messed and slept in a 

 tent on the beach, while the men were lodged on 

 board the " Hecla." By the 18th the " Fury" was 

 completely cleared, and they were in the act of 

 heaving her down, when a storm came on ; there 

 was a heavy sea ; the protecting ice was worn away, 

 the cables slacked up, and the basin thus lost its 

 protection. The " Fury " was once more driven 

 up on the beach by masses of ice ; and by the 

 21st an icy barrier, three or four miles in width, 

 separated the "Hecla" from her doomed consort. 

 On the 25th, Parry, with several officers, went in a 

 boat to Fury Beach, and it was then decided that 

 it would be impossible to make the " Fury " sea- 

 worthy, and that she must be abandoned. Her 

 boats were hauled up clear of the ice, and she was 

 left to her fate. 



When Sir John Ross undertook his expedition 

 in the little " Victory," he relied a good deal on 

 the great store of provisions that had thus been piled 

 on the desolate shore of North Somerset. He 

 landed at Fury Beach on the 12th of August, 1829, 



