CAPE ALEXANDER: THE ARCTIC GIBRALTAR. 



CHAPTER LII. 



the second grinnell expedition — the advance in winter quarters 



total darkness sledge-parties adventures the first death 



Tennyson's monument — humboldt glacier — the open polar sea — second 



winter abandonment of the brig the water again upernavik 



rescue by captain hartstene death and services of dr. kane 



attempt to lay the atlantic cable conclusion. 



The Government of the United States forwarded to Dr. 

 Kane, in the month of December, 1852, an order "to conduct 

 an expedition to the Arctic Seas in search of Sir John 

 Franklin." The brig Advance was again placed at his dis- 

 posal by Mr. Grinnell, and manned by eighteen picked men. 

 Dr. Kane's plan was to enter Smith's Sound at the top of 



Baffin's Bay, — into which, alone of the Arctic explorers, Cap- 



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