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CAPE HAYES. 
able to use tlie sextant. His journal-entry referring 
to tlie 23d, while tangled in the ice, says, “ I was so 
snow-blind that I could not see; and as riding, owing 
to tlie jaded condition of the dogs, was seldom possible, 
we were obliged to lay to.” 
It was not until the 25th that their eyesight was 
sufficiently restored to enable them to push on. In 
these devious and untrodden ice-fields, even the in¬ 
stinct of the dogs would have been of little avail to 
direct their course. It was well for the party that 
during this compulsory halt the temperatures were 
mild and endurable. From their station of the 25tli, 
they obtained reliable sights of the coast, trending to 
tlie northward and eastward, and a reliable determina¬ 
tion of latitude, in 79° 24' 4". A fine headland, bear¬ 
ing nearly due northwest, I named Cape Ilayes, in 
commemoration of the gentleman who discovered it. 
Instead, however, of making for the land, which 
could not have aided their survey, they followed the . 
outer ice, at the same time edging in toward a lofty 
bluff whose position they had determined by inter¬ 
section. They hoped here to effect a landing, but en¬ 
countered a fresh zone of broken ice in the attempt. 
The hummocks could not be turned. The sledge had 
to be lifted over them by main strength, and it required 
the most painful efforts of tlie whole party to liberate 
it from tlie snow between them. 
On the 26th, disasters accumulated. Wiffiam God¬ 
frey, one of the sturdiest travellers, broke down; and 
