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on its western shore, but not knowing- that M'Clure had followed 

 this course, he turned hack and wintered in Walker Bay, Prince 

 Albert Land. Sledging parties were sent out in various directions 

 during the winter and early summer, and after the ice broke up in 

 August, 1852, Prince Albert Sound was surveyed. Collinson then 

 sailed eastward between Wollaston and Victoria lands and the main- 

 land to Cambridge Bay, where he was obliged again to seek winter 

 quarters late in September. During the winter of 1852 -53 sledging 

 parties examined the southeastern coast of Victoria Land. The ship 

 was liberated in August, 1853, and Collinson retraced his way west- 

 ward, but was stopped by ice in Camden Bay, east of Point Barrow, 

 and forced to spend another winter in the Arctic, after which he 

 returned to England. In his journal, which was published in 1889, 

 Collinson gives many notes on natural history, mainly referring to 

 the wintering stations. 



The Resolute, Captain Kellett, and the Intrepid, Captain M'Clin- 

 tock, two of the fleet of five vessels which the British Government 

 sent out in 1S52 to search for the Franklin expedition, wintered at 

 Dealy Island, off the southern coast of Melville Island. During the 

 spring of 1853 sledging parties under Mecham, M'Clintock, and 

 others, examined nearly the entire coast line of Prince Patrick Island, 

 and other portions of the adjacent region, one party under Lieutenant 

 Pim reaching and rescuing the crew of the Investigator, as before 

 mentioned. The Resolute and Intrepid were drawn out of winter 

 quarters in August, 1853, but soon afterwards were caught in the 

 ice, and after drifting during the following winter, were abandoned 

 May 15, 1854, in Melville Sound, north of Prince of Wales Island. 

 Two others of the fleet, the Assistance and Pioneer, being also aban- 

 doned, the crews of the four vessels, as well as that of the /// vestigator, 

 were taken home on the North Star. The abandoned Resolute es- 

 caped from the ice, and after drifting a thousand miles through 

 Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, and Baffin Bay, was recovered in 

 Davis Strait north of Cape Dyer by Captain Buddington, an Ameri- 

 can whaler, was purchased by the United States Government, and 

 presented to Great Britain. M'Dougall's narrative of the voyage of 

 the Resolute has been examined in the present connection and many 

 notes on the fauna of Prince Patrick Island and the adjacent region 

 have been obtained from it. 



In L855 .fames Anderson and James G. Stewart, of the Hudson's 

 Bay Company, descended Back River to search for traces of the 

 Franklin expedition. They left Fort Resolution June 22 and pro- 

 ceeded to the eastern end of Great Slave Lake and thence by the lakes 

 and rivers, encountering great difficulties, to the head of Back River, 

 where they arrived about July 13. Back River was then descended 

 to its mouth, and Montreal Island and portions of the shore of the 



