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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[NO. 27. 



boat voyage, addressed to the Hudson's Bay Company, were published, 

 by the Royal Geographical Society, and contain many notes on the 

 fauna of the coast explored. 



The boat expedition of Lieutenant Pullen and Capt. W. H. Hooper, 

 dispatched from thQ Plover (under the command of Captain Moore), 

 reached the vicinity of Point Barrow early in August, 1849, and Fort 

 McPherson September 5. From here Pullen, with seven men, pro- 

 ceeded up the Mackenzie to Fort Simpson, where he passed the win- 

 ter. Hooper, unable for lack of provisions to remain at Fort Mc- 

 Pherson, left there September 19 and ascended the Mackenzie to Fort 

 Norman, then situated on the left bank some distance above its pres- 

 ent site, where he arrived on October 6. On November 11 the party 

 left for Great Bear Lake, traveling across country with dog sleds 

 and reaching there November 19. Here the winter of 1849-50 Avas 

 passed, the party occupying a small log house near the site of Fort 

 Franklin. During the winter Hooper passed back and forth betw^een 

 Great Bear Lake and Fort Norman, spending much time at the latter 

 place, where the remainder of the party joined him on May 8, 1850, 

 and later in the month proceeded up the Mackenzie and joined Pul- 

 len on June 1. Thence the united party ascended the Mackenzie to 

 Great Slave Lake, intending to return to England, but met dispatches 

 ordering further prosecution of the search on the seacoast. Accord- 

 ingly they returned down the Mackenzie, reaching Point Separation 

 July IT. Thence they voyaged eastward along the coast to Cape 

 Bathurst, where they were forced to abandon the search on account 

 of ice. They commenced their return about the middle of August 

 and ascended the Mackenzie to Fort Simpson, where they passed the 

 winter of 1850-51, and returned to England the following summer. 



About this time and during the next few years many other expe- 

 ditions in search of the Franklin party traversed the devious and 

 ice-beset waterways of the Arctic north of the American continent, 

 and, mainly by means of sledge journeys, explored nearly the entire 

 extent of coast line of the Parry Archipelago and the other great 

 islands in that quarter. Prominent among these were the following, 

 of which brief itineraries are given : 



The ships Lady FraiiMin and Sojyhia left England on April 13, 

 1850, and arrived at Beechey Island on August 27, and Assistance 

 Bay, at the southern extremity of Cornwallis Island, on September 

 12.. There the Avinter of 1850-51 was passed. Sledging parties ex- 

 amined Wellington Channel and portions of the shores of North 

 Devon, Albert Land, Cornwallis Island, Baillie Hamilton Island, 

 and Baring Island. In the narrative of the voyage, b}^ P. C. Suther- 

 land, many notes on natural history are given. 



The Prince Albert reached Batty Bay, Prince Regent Inlet, on 

 September 10, 1851, and wintered there. During the following spring 



