THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 
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Parr started upon his memorable thirty miles march through 
the snow and returned with the succour so urgently needed, 
alas! too late to save the life of one of these fearfully tried 
men. 
Meanwhile Lieutenants Aldrich and Griffard had gone west, 
and on May 17th the former of these officers having traced the 
coast for 220 miles, reached his furthest in lat. 82° 16' H., long. 
85° 33' W. His return journey proved a severe struggle, and he 
reached the ship on June 26th, having been away eighty-four 
days, during which he travelled 620 miles. 
Upon Lieutenant Beaumont, Dr. Coppinger, and Lieutenant 
Eawson, of the Discovery , devolved the task of exploring the 
coast of Greenland. Their struggles proved equally severe with 
those of the other parties. On May 21st, Lieutenant Beaumont 
reached his furthest in lat. 82° 18' 1ST., long. 50° 40' W., and 
saw land far in the north, under lat. 82° 54'. Two men of this 
eastern division fell victims to scurvy and exhaustion, and its 
members were only again united on board the 44 Discovery,” on 
August 14th, having crossed Hall Basin after the ice on both sides 
of it was already in motion. Lieutenant Archer, in the mean- 
while, had explored Lady Franklin Sound, which he found to 
terminate in a narrow fiord, extending for 50 miles towards the 
south-west. 
Captain Hares wisely determined to return home as soon as 
the breaking up of the ice should permit his doing so. There 
appeared to be no chance of taking the ships further north, and 
at best he would merely be able to extend the exploration of 
the coasts for an inconsiderable distance, particularly as the 
health of officers and men had suffered severely. On July 20th, a 
decided movement of the ice took place ; on the 23rd, a strong 
* south-westerly wind drove the pack away from the shore, and on 
the 31st, having cleared a passage through the protecting barrier 
of floe-bergs, they entered Bobeson Channel. After narrowly 
escaping destruction from ice pressing upon the ship, she joined 
the Discovery on August 11th. Taking advantage of every 
opening in the ice, the two ships worked their way slowly 
towards the south. Cape Frazer was passed on August 25th ; open 
water reached on September 10th, when off Cape Victoria, and it 
was then possible to make a clear run for Cape Sabine. Captain 
Hares thus sums up the chances of navigating Smith Sound : — 
44 To the latitude of Polaris or Discovery Bay, if no accident 
happens to the ship, the passage may probably be made with 
perseverance most years, by starting early in the season ; but it 
will at all times be a most dangerous one.” Ho vessel, he is 
confident, will ever round Cape Joseph Henry, or pass beyond 
Cape Brevoort in navigable water. 
The geographical results of this expedition, as far as they find 
