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best of his waj' out of the ice, that he would be about the 
outside of the pack, if not amongst the sea streams, on 
Thursday the 5th, at night, or on Friday morning, which 
commenced with a most heavy ENE. gale, and snow. As 
this ship has not yet been heard of, it is probable that she 
was entirely lost amongst the heavy streams that were drift¬ 
ed in various directions from the pack. Such, at least, I 
imagine, has been the fate of that unfortunate ship and 
crew ; though some are of opinion that she has been beset 
among the land-ice, and there either lost or imprisoned for 
the winter. 
Memorandum respecting the King George , and the Suffer¬ 
ings of some of her Crew in the Whale-fishery. 
The King George, Captain Proven, sailed from London 
to the Greenland whale-fishery in the sprung of 1822. A 
peculiar fatality seemed to attend her in the outset. Mr 
Gibson, surgeon of the Trafalgar, gave me the following 
particulars respecting the sufferings of part of her crew, 
who were a long time absent from the ship in a severe frost, 
soon after she entered the fishing stations. The crew of 
the King George, it appears, struck a fish during one of 
those severe gales which we had in the month of May, 
when the thermometer fell to zero or below. Thick weather 
setting in, they lost sight of the ship, and were exposed to 
the severities of the most intense cold and violent storm, for 
fifty hours. One man fell a victim to the cold while on 
the ice, and another (bed soon after he reached his ship. 
All of them suffered from the severity of the exposure, 
more or less. Some lost their fingers,—others their toes, 
; — some their hands,—and others their feet. The surgeon 
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