NAVIGATOKS FEOZEN IN. 



CHAPTER L. 



BOSS'S SECOND VOYAGE — THE NORTH MAGNETIC POLE — D'URVILLE- -ENDERBY'S 

 LAND — BACK'S VOYAGE IN THE TERROR — THE GREAT WESTERN AND S1RIUS — 

 UNITED STATES' EXPLORING EXPEDITION — THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT — SIR 

 JOHN FRANKLIN'S LAST VOYAGE IN THE EREBUS AND TERROR — ETFORTS MADE 

 TO RELIEVE HIM — DISCOVERY OF THE SCENE OF HIS FIRST WINTER QUARTERS 



THE GRINNELL EXPEDITION — THE ADVANCE AND RESCUE — LIEUTENANT DE 



HAVEN — DR. KANE — RETURN OF THE EXPEDITION. 



In the year 1828, Sir John Ross applied to the Government 

 for the means of making a second voyage to the Arctic waters 

 of America, and was refused. The next year, Mr. Sheriff 

 Booth, a gentleman of liberal spirit, offered to assume the pecu- 

 niary responsibilities of the expedition, and empowered Ross to 

 make what outlay he thought proper. He bought and equipped 

 the Victory, a packet-ship plying between Liverpool and the 

 Isle of Man. She had a small high-pressure engine, and paddle- 

 wheels which could be lifted out of the water. She sailed in 

 May, 1829. We shall give but a brief account of the incidents 

 of the voyage till we arrive at the event which has made James 

 Clarke Ross, the nephew of Sir John, illustrious, — the discovery 

 of the North Magnetic Pole, — that mysterious spot towards 

 which forever points the needle of the mariner's compass. 



While in Baffin's Bay, in June, the Victory lost her fore- 



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