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the service, been in close relations with one another, and these men 
are remembered by us all with sympathy and respect. 
As soon after this as the health of our company could justify, I set 
out with my original party to renew the attempt from a higher point 
on the Greenland coast, carrying with me an India-rubber boat. This 
journey was undertaken in the latter part of April, and continued into 
May. It was followed by others, which extended the search, almost 
without intermission, until the 10th of July. These journeys may be 
thus summed up:— 
March.Mr. Brooks and Dr. Kane. 
April, May.Dr. Kane, Messrs. McGaiy and Bonsall. 
June.Dr. Hayes and William Godfrey. 
June, July.William Morton, and Hans Ileindrick, our 
native hunter. 
The arrival of the Esquimaux in April enabled us to add four dogs 
to the three that remained of our original stock, and thus to equip a 
slender team. The value of these animals for Arctic ice-travel can 
hardly be overestimated. The earlier journeys of March, April, and 
May, proved incomparably more arduous and exposing than those per¬ 
formed with dogs, while their results were entirely disproportionate to 
the labor they cost us. It was invariably the case that the entire 
party, on its return from the field, passed at once upon the sick-list. 
Out of neariy three thousand miles of travel, no less than eleven 
hundred were made by the dog-sledge; and during the fall, winter, and 
spring of the ensuing year (1854-55) I made, in person, no less than 
fourteen hundred miles with a single team. 
Setting out from our winter quarters, three expeditions effected the 
passage of the bay:—1. To the north, with Messrs. McGaiy and Bon¬ 
sall, along the base of a great glacier which issued from the coast' of 
Greenland in latitude 79° 12'. A copy of this glacier, as surveyed 
by me in 1855, accompanies this report. 2. To the southwest, by 
Dr. Hayes and William Godfrey. 3. To the northwest, and along the * 
shores of a new channel, by W. Morton and our Esquimaux hunter, 
Hans. The original reports of these journeys, w T ith my own observa¬ 
tions, are now under seal and subject to the orders of the Department. 
I give only a summary of results, referring for particulars to the track 
chart projected on the spot from the original field-notes, which I have 
the honor to transmit with this report. 
Greenland reaches its farthest western point at Cape Alexander, in 
the neighborhood of latitude 78° 10' N., and, after passing longitude 
