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the stores, which they found to be in excellent pre- 

 servation. They then set out again, discovered 

 Bellot's Strait, and returned to Batty Bay, after 

 having travelled right round North Somerset. 



When Sir Leopold McClintock went down Prince 

 Regent's Inlet in the te Fox " he was off Fury Beach 

 on the 20th of August, 1858, but did not land. 

 In March, 1859, however, Mr. Allen Young left the 

 " Fox " at Port Kennedy with a party consisting of 

 the cook, two Esquimaux, and some dogs, in order 

 to obtain provisions at Fury Beach. He reached 

 the place on the 22nd, when the ground was covered 

 with snow, so that it was necessary to dig down to 

 the casks. After much trouble he obtained what 

 was required, about 8 cwt. of sugar, and some 

 preserved vegetables. His report to Sir Leopold 

 McClintock was, that the stores were so covered 

 with deep snow that it was impossible to take an 

 account of them, but that he had found some casks 

 of sugar, tobacco, peas, and flour, a very little coal, 

 and two boats — one a four-oared gig, the other a 

 cutter with the side cut out as if for making a flat 

 sledge. Allen Young returned to the " Fox " on 

 the 28th, after a very severe journey across heavy 

 hummocks in Creswell Bay, where his sledge broke 

 down, and he became snow blind, and had to be left 

 alone in a bag in the middle of the bay for forty- 

 eight hours, whilst his companions made progress 

 with the heavy load. 



