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SECOND 



VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY 



OF A 



NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 



CHAPTER I. 



PASSAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC REMOVAL OF STORES FROM THE NAUTILUS TRANSPORT, 



AT THE MARGIN OF THE ICE— DEPARTURE OF THE NAUTILUS FOR ENGLAND ENTER 



THE ICE IN HUDSON'S STRAIT PERILOUS SITUATION OF THE HECLA, AND LOSS OF HER 



ANCHOR MEET WITH THE HUDSON'S-BAY SHIPS— PASSAGE UP THE STRAIT, AND COM- 

 MUNICATION WITH THE NATIVES INHABITING THE NORTHERN SHORES PASS THE 



TRINITY ISLANDS OF FOX — ARRIVAL OFF SOUTHAMPTON ISLAND, WHERE THE RE- 

 SEARCHES OF THE EXPEDITION COMMENCE. 



f \ HE Fury, Hecla, and Nautilus Transport, were completed for sea towards 1821. 

 the latter part of the month of April, and, on the 29th, at 10 A.M., the wind v3?i 

 being from the eastward, with every appearance of its continuing, the Fury Sun< 29 ' 

 was taken in tow by the Eclipse steam-boat, which vessel had before taken 

 us down the river on a similar occasion. At two P.M., the Fury was moored 

 to the buoy at Northfleet, and the Eclipse returned to Deptford for the other 

 ships. The Hecla reached the moorings on the folloAving day, and the Nau- Mon - 30, 

 tilusonthe 1st of May. The guns and ordnance-stores were here received Tues?i. 

 on board, after which the ships immediately proceeded to the Little No re 

 where they anchored on the 3d. I received my final instructions from the 

 Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on the 4th, and set out for Sheerness 

 on the following day. On the 7th, the ships were visited by Rear- Admiral Mon - 7 - 

 Sir John Gore, from whom we had, on this, as on the former occasion, re- 

 ceived every attention and assistance, which the greatest personal kindness, 



