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ever, in crossing the Atlantic, and it was not until July 
6th that the three vessels arrived at Lievely or Godhavn, 
on the south coast of Disco Island. The Alert and 
Discovery were here filled up with stores and provisions 
by the Valorous, took on board dogs, and with them 
a Dane named Petersen (not the great Carl Petersen) 
and the Eskimo Frederick. Parting company with the 
Valorous at Ritenbenk, they sailed down the Waigat 
fjord north of Disco, and on July 19th arrived at Proven, 
where the services of the veteran Hans Hendrik were 
secured for the Discovery 1 , 
As the season was late Captain Nares took the middle 
pack, and reached the north water of Baffin's Bay in 
34 hours. At the end of July a small depot was left at 
Cape Isabella, the western entrance of Sir Thomas Smith's 
Channel, but soon afterwards the ships were beset near 
Cape Sabine, and detained by the ice for five days. At 
last there was a lead to the north, but the Alert was 
for some time in great danger of being forced up the 
side of a berg. There were heavy falls of snow and much 
danger from the drifting floes, and on August 8th they 
had to cut a dock in order to avoid a serious nip. At 
length Lady Franklin Bay was reached, and fixed upon 
as the winter quarters of the Discovery. The Alert 
pushed on, and fortunately a south-west gale drove the 
pack off the shore, and enabled Captain Nares to take 
a narrow channel along the coast, and reach " Floe-berg 
Beach" facing the great polar ocean, where the vessel 
was hauled inside some huge masses of ice, which from 
their size and formation, received the name of "floe 
bergs." Here, in 82 0 30' N., within a hundred yards of a 
low beach, were her winter quarters, about 50 miles from 
1 Hans Hendrik was born at the German missionary station of 
Fiskernas in Greenland, and had become a good kayaker and hunter 
when he agreed to join Dr Kane's expedition, where he was under the 
protection of Carl Petersen. He was with Morton when he reported 
having seen the open polar sea. After Kane's second winter Hans joined 
the Arctic Highlanders and married a girl named Markut. Hans and his 
wife later joined Hayes's expedition, and afterwards settled at Upernivik. 
In August, 1871, they joined Hall's expedition, and were left on the floe 
which drifted down Baffin's Bay, where, as we have seen, Hans saved 
the rest of the party by his skill as a huntsman. He was most useful 
in some of the sledge journeys from the Discovery. In 1877 he wrote 
his memoirs in Eskimo, which were translated into English by Dr Rink 
(Trubner, 1878). He afterwards lived at Upernivik. 
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