ch.xxxiv] Sir Allen Young and the" Pandora" 313 
boats. They had no sooner got into the North Water 
of Baffin's Bay than a gale sprang up off the Cary Islands, 
which increased to a frightful storm from the south-east. 
No previous voyagers had ever experienced the like in 
that part. On the 1st of August it moderated, and a 
landing was effected on one of the Cary Islands, but 
nothing was found. The Pandora arrived at Littleton 
Island, within the entrance of Smith Sound, on the 
3rd August. 
Allen Young then determined to reach Cape Isabella, 
on the west side of Smith Sound, expecting to find des- 
patches from the Nares expedition there. In this he was 
successful, and Arbuthnot and von Becker went on shore 
to examine the cairn which had been erected the previous 
year by Commander A. H. Markham on the summit of the 
cape. The boat had to be forced through drifting ice, but 
reached the shore. A record was found, dated July 29th, 
1875, and signed by Nares. Next day Young began to 
think that a cask which Arbuthnot believed to be full of 
provisions ought to have been examined for letters, and 
determined to return to Cape Isabella to do this. As the 
Cape was approached, it blew so hard and the sea was so 
covered with drifting ice that it was not safe to send a boat, 
and for a whole month the vessel fought gales of wind, 
drifting floes, and danger in manj^ forms, before a 
landing was ultimately effected. The cask was found to 
be empty! Nothing remained but to return home, for 
all possibility of making their way to the north was pre- 
vented by the solid pack. Letters were left at Cape 
Isabella and Littleton Island. On the voyage home a 
very pleasant visit was paid to the Arctic Highlanders 
in Whale Sound, ''kind and simple people, robust and 
healthy, who offered us everything they had." On the 
nth September the Pandora left Upernivik, and on the 
16th of the following month the Alert and Discovery 
were sighted in mid-Atlantic on their voyage home. 
Portsmouth was reached on November 3rd, 1876. 
The two voyages of the Pandora, under the command 
of a great seaman, a great discoverer, and a most popular 
commander, are well worthy of record, and Sir Allen 
Young's admirable but modest narrative is a model of 
the way in which an Arctic story should be told. 
