1% A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 
Bay (between Cape York and lat. 75° N.) she 
drifted a distance of nearly 1400 miles through 
Baffin Bay before getting free?, On returning 
from the expedition, which had been successfully 
accomplished, the ‘Fox’ was sold to a firm at 
Copenhagen for sealing off Spitsbergen, and after- 
wards passed into English hands as a surveying 
ship in connexion with a projected cable between 
America, Greenland, and Iceland. Later the yacht 
was used as a cargo boat by the owners of the 
cryolite mine in South Greenland and by them 
sold to the Danish Government for coastal service. 
In 1912 she was placed temporarily at the disposal 
of a Swiss Expedition on the west coast, the mem- 
bers of which erected a monument—a large metal 
gas cylinder—in memory of the ‘Fox’ (‘Til Minde 
om Fox’) on the rocks near Jakobshavn (Map 
B, J). On returning from the expedition she ran 
aground but was refloated and eventually reached 
Godhavn, where she was condemned as unfit for 
further service. The Director of the Arctic Station, 
with his motor-boat, towed the ‘Fox’ to her last 
resting-place in 1913. 
A more remarkable instance of southerly drifting 
of ice from North Greenland is worth recalling. 
An ice-floe carrying nineteen persons, including 
nine Eskimoes, from the ill-fated American ship 
‘Polaris,’ which was abandoned in Smith’s Sound 
in October, 1872, made a longer voyage than the 
‘Fox’; the party was picked up in April, 1873, forty 
1 The Voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the Arctic Seas, by Sir F. L. 
M’Clintock, London, 1859. 
