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LAST VOYAGE OF CAPT. ROSS. 
Bear was seen, but at too great a distance to obtain a shot at him. 
The ship was made fast to a berg aground, but the wind becom¬ 
ing fair, they cast off and made sail. The fair wind was however 
of a very short continuance, for it suddenly veered and became 
foul, when the steam was again got up, but as the tide was 
running strongly against them, they made fast to a piece of ice. 
On the turn of the tide, got under way with the steam, but were 
obliged to stop the engine repeatedly in order to get up more 
power; at the same time the whale boat was running away with 
whale lines, to track the ship along while the steam was getting 
up. They continued in this manner to track and steam, until 
they arrived at the Fury’s stores, one boat sounding a head of 
the ship all the way. All the officers went on shore, but it was 
now clearly ascertained that no vestige of the Fury remained. 
It was conjectured that the ice had taken her off the bank, and 
then she sunk. The depth of water at the edge of the bank is five 
fathoms, and shoals away gradually as the beach is approached, 
this being generally the case along the whole line of the coast. 
The crew were in high spirits on discovering the sound condition 
of the Fury's stores, and humorously styled it the North Pole 
Victualling Yard. The crew had for their supper some of the 
preserved meats off the beach, and they pronounced them to be 
excellent. The hands were now all employed in getting some of 
the stores on board, and the Victory became in some degree 
revictualled. The Fury was abandoned in latitude 72° 46' N. 
and longitude 91° 50' W. Capt. Ross left a letter in the dog 
kennel, in remembrance of the Victory, and the crew, one and 
all, on casting off from the beach, exclaimed “ God bless Fury 
Beach.” 
The Fury was abandoned in 1825, and Capt. Ross did not 
reach the same place until 18*29, making an interval of four years 
that the stores of the former had been lying on the beach, in the 
same situation as they had been left by Capt. Parry, exposed to 
all the severity of four arctic winters; but notwithstanding this 
most severe trial, the bread was the only thing that was in any 
degree injured. The preserved meats were found to be in excel¬ 
lent condition, and the vegetables, particularly the carrots and 
