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norihward of our position, it was also fully proved that there could be 
no passage below the 71st degree. 
This autumn we succeeded in gettingthe vessel only 14 miles to the 
northward, and as we had not doubled the Eastern Cape, all hopes of 
saving the ship was at an end, and put quite beyond possibility, by an¬ 
other very severe winter, and having only provisions to last us to 1st 
June 1832, dispositions were accordingly made to heave the ship in 
her present port, which (after her) was named “ Victory Harbour.” 
Provisions and fuel being carried forward in the spring, we left the 
ship on 29th May 1832, for Fury Beach, being the only chance left of 
saving our lives; owing to the very rugged nature of the ice, we were 
obliged to keep either upon or close to the land, making the circuit of 
every bay, thus increasing our distance of 200 miles by nearly one half, 
and it was not until the 1st of July that we reached the beach, com¬ 
pletely exhausted bv hunger and fatigue. 
A hut was speedily constructed, and the boats, three of which had 
been washed off the beach, but providentially driven on shore again, 
were repaired during this month ; but the unusual heavy appearance 
of the ice afforded us no cheering prospect until 1st August, when in 
three boats we reached the ill-fated spot where the Fury was first 
driven on shore, and it was not until the 1st September we reached 
Leopold South Island, now established to be the N.E. point of Ame¬ 
rica, in lat. 73* 56‘ and long. 90° west. From the summit of the lofty 
mountain on the promontory we could see Prince Regent’s Inlet, Bar¬ 
row’s Strait, and Lancaster Sound, which presented one impenetrable 
mass of ice, just as 1 had seen it in 1818; here we remained in a state 
of anxiety and suspense, which may be easier imagined than described* 
All our attempts to push through were vain ; at length, being forced 
by want of provisions and the approach of a most severe winter to 
return to Fury Beach, where alone there remained wherewith to 
sustain life; there we arrived on 7th of October, after a most fatiguing 
and laborious march, having been obliged to leave our boats at Batty 
Bay. Our habitation, which consisted in a frame of spars, 32 feet by 
16, covered with canvass, was during the month of November inclosed, 
and the roof covered with snow from four to seven feet thick, which 
being saturated with water when the temperature was 15° below zero, 
immediately took the consistency of ice, and thus we actually became 
the inhabitants of an iceberg during one of the most severe winters 
hitherto recorded ; our sufferings, aggravated by want of bedding, 
