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there. The Fury was dismantled, and, being found unfit for service, 
Captain Parry was obliged to abandon her and return to England. 
Accompanied by Sir James Ross, Parry again put to sea in the 
Heda, in April, 1826. On this, his third voyage, on leaving Table 
Island on the north of Spitzbergen, Parry placed his crew in the two 
training ships, Lx¢erprise and Endeavour; the first under his own 
command, the second under the orders of Sir James Ross. Some- 
times they sailed, sometimes they were hauled through the crust of 
the ice ; sometimes the ice, which pierced their shoes, showed itself 
bristling with points, and was split up into valleys and little hills, 
which it was difficult to scale. In spite of the courage and energy of 
their crews, the two ships scarcely advanced four miles a day, while 
the drifting of the ice towards the south led them imperceptibly 
towards their point of departure. They reached latitude 82° 45’ 15”, 
however, and this was the extreme point which they attained. 
In the month of May, 1829, Sir John Ross, accompanied by his 
nephew, James Clark Ross, again turned towards the Polar Seas. He 
entered Prince Regent’s Channel, and there he found the fury, which 
had been dismantled and abandoned by Parry in these regions eight 
years before. The provisions which the old ship still contained 
were quite a providential resource to Ross's crews. ‘The distinguished 
navigator explored the Boothian Peninsula, and passed four years 
consecutively in Port Felix, without being able to disengage his 
vessel, the Victory, from the ice. This gave him ample leisure to 
become familiar with the Esquimaux. Sir John Ross, in his account 
of this long sojourn in polar countries, has recorded many conversa- 
tions with the natives, which our space does not permit us to quote. 
From this terrible position, bound in by the ice, he was at last 
extricated, and emerged with his crew from this icy prison, when all 
hope of his return had been abandoned. After being exposed to a 
thousand dangers, Ross and his crew were at last observed, after 
many efforts on their parts to attract attention, by a whaling ship, 
which received them on board. On learning that the ship which 
had saved them was the Zsabel/a, formerly commanded by Captain 
Ross, he made himself known. “But Captain Ross has been dead 
two years,” was the reply. 
We need not repeat here the enthusiastic reception Sir John Ross 
and his companions met with on their arrival in London. 
During an excursion made by the nephew of the Commander 
(afterwards Sir James Clark Ross), he very closely approached the 
North Magnetic Pole. This was at eight o’clock on the morning of 
the rst of June, 1831, and on the west coast of Boothia. The dip of 
