r J'HE polar seas. 
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surrounds the aIT^ 7° made to P eriet rate the ice which 
»«« *!*• * "8ta ‘“Ving little which c„„H 
ohstinate and msec T. -Crests of commerce seemed to callfor 
In > 1 * 0 * the« “:r s *“'”■'? .*» *«“<- to the Arctic Pole 
two Centuries the verio™™ ex P etlltl0ns > however, which extend over 
known to geiS -Tl NortU Po!o ** being 
eover them were the sourc > 7 ^ ^ SD0WB w bich almost always 
gators. I n his first TO va»e ° “ any errors made by the earlier navi- 
think that Wer ZS’w“: ^ “ f 8 ’ ^ **s was led to 
be called the Croker Mountains'! but iif the^fTl O ^ 1110lultainSj ^hich 
burry, in command of two shins ti, , 77 7 °^ 0Win S y ear Captain 
that this was an error. This celebrated " * 7 Gri ^ e) '’ Covered 
Straits, Wellington Channel uravup.tor discovered Barrow’s 
Slr bbyam Martin, and Melville Ishr 1 7 T^i*^ mlet ; Cornwallis, 
Archipelago h as been g 7 ven In ° ^ «“ ™ °f Parry’s 
new results than were obtained bv bio 01 ' ° yage b e gathered more 
years. He was the fir 7 to t l T* 80 " forty 
Martin Island he has SiJed thlT 6 T ““ a * Up ° U Sir Byam 
the Esquimaux. He passed the • T™ °* S ° me aucient habitations of 
>**• In 0* 
saw a passage, in the ice of a lea*u 1 , com Pell< d to 
labour of three davs- but - 1 b 1U en gth, which involved the 
harbour than ” ** 
They earned ashore the ship’s boats tb° .'n' ^ de § rees below zero. 
The masts were struck to the maintop • the ’ 7’ l !? ails ’ aud Io g'books. 
° rm il roof > doping to the gunwale wfib aX v “ KSgbg Seryo<1 to 
which formed an admirable^helter IV 1 ^ covenn g of sail-cloth, 
less precautions were taken ■ 7 7 Wlnd aud s,10w - Number- 
stov„ * „c* »*i s 8a “i:tfr d " i "* *>» ^ 
temperature. I n each dormitoT 7 f 1 * ^ portaW ° de S™ ° p 
cleth interposed to prevent the collection^ °* lmpemeable 
Walls of the ship. The crew were diriL T ° U ^ WOoden 
paQ y being under the charge of a l 7 “7 COmpaiues ’ eac}l uom- 
mspection of their clothes and clell ^ with tbe <1% 
against scurvy. As a measure „ nlmess ~ an essential protection 
tutTf' 11 ^ 11 thG ° r<Wy Nation of CT» iQ PaKy reduC6d 
