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Introduction .......... i 
Official Instructions .......... xix 
CHAPTER I. 
Passage across the Atlantic — Enter Davis’ Strait— Unsuccessful attempt to penetrate the ice 
to the Western Coast — Voyage up the Strait^r-Passage through the Ice to the Western 
Coast — Arrival off Possession Bay, on the Southern side of 'the entrance into Sir James 
Lancaster’s Sound . . . . . . . . . . . .1 
CHAPTER II. 
Entrance into Sir James Lancaster’s Sound of Baffin— Uninterrupted Passage to the Westward 
— ’Discovery and Examination of Prince Regent’s Inlet — Progress to the Southward 
stopped by Ice — Return to the Northward — Pass Barrow’s Strait — and enter the Polar 
Sea ........... 29 
CHAPTER III. 
Favourable appearances of an Open Westerly Passage — Land to the Northward, a Series of 
Islands — General Appearance of them — Meet with some obstruction from low Islands sur- 
rounded with Ice — Remains cf Esquimaux Huts, and Natural Productions of Byam 
Martin Island — Tedious Navigation from Fogs and Ice — Difficulty of Steering a Proper 
Course — Arrival and Landing on Melville Island — Proceed to the Westward, and reach 
the Meridian of 110° W. Longitude, the First Stage in the Scale of Rewards granted by 
Act of Parliament . . . . . . . . .53 
CHAPTER IV. 
Further Examination of Melville Island — Continuation of our Progress to the Westward — Long 
Detention by the Ice — Party sent on Shore to hunt Deer and Musk-Oxen — Return in 
Three Days, after losing their way — Anxiety on their account — Proceed to the Westward, 
till finally stopped by the Ice — In returning to the Eastward the Griper forced on the 
beach by the Ice — Search for, and discovery of, a Winter Harbour on Melville Island — 
Operations for securing the Ships in their Winter Quarters . . . .75 
