The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-24 00:00:00

APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED,

ifEA and PE RRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops,
And all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad,
and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to
perfectly digest the food.
The daily use of this ar3matic and delicious Sauce is the best safe-
guard to health.
Sold by the proprietors. Lea and Ferrins, 6, Vere-street, Oxford-
street, London, and 66, Broad-street, Worcester; also bY Messrs.
?;:relay and Sons, Messrs. Crow and Blackwell, and other Oihnen
and Merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in
auee.
N.B. To guard against imitations, see that the names of ."
LEA.
end FERAINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle,

I do not want to imitate old Moore,
Who often tried the future to explore.
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I never handle matters of chronology
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By
Yet, notwithstanding this, my humble muse
Is half-Inclined to tread in Murphy's shoes,
B.
telling you the reasons she has got
For thinking winter will be hard or not.
Judging from signs, I do not think I'm wrong
In saying winter will be hard and long.
I fancy that the snowdrop's slender leaf
Shows certain signs that winter won't bo brief •
The crocus and the hyacinth as well
The self-same story of the winter tell
And there is something in the robin's note
Which indicates that warmth is far remote.
Now, if you think I'm right in such a guess,
A warning take, and look to winter dress.
Moses and Son's warm coats you must regard;
If winter's season's to be long.and hard.
No opportunity have Moses' lost
1;1 making preparation for the frost;
Th,., trading bard's prediction, kindly meant,
Sboui,l lead to Moses' famed establishment;
Where winter dress for moderate price is sold, .
Adapted o the, bard's predicted cold.
(ART OF- PRICER.' '
• , READY MADE.
lationn and Winter Over Coats, in every
The B nlwer, handsomely and warmly trimmed 0 18 0
The raletot, ditto...• •••• •• 018 0
Chesterfield, . . ditto.. ,• • • •• • 1 0 0
The A/bert•WraPper, a very handsome style
'Overlloat .. ' ..... ............. 1 i
• Shootinz Coats • •
Lounging or Morning Coats .. ••• • • .•• .. 0 4 6
Autumn and Winter Trousers, in Tweed •• 0 4 6
Ditto ditto Doeskin .. 0 7 6
'Ditto , • Tests • • .... ..... 0 2 6
Black Silk Velvet Vests.-- .••• • • . • • 0 13 6
Dress Coats ••••••.. • • • • . • 017 0
•
y paths and Boys' Over Coats, in every style,
0 7 0
Wissor and Tae Snits• • • • • 014 6
Boys' Antrunn and Winter Tests -•. • ... 00 8
• • • NAVE TO _MEASURE.
Men's Autumn and Winter Over Costs • - from 1 1 0
The Chesterfield wrapper, in a warn'
torial, lined •••- -- • • ....
The Paletet, handsomely and warmly trimmed 1 16 0
The Tglinten Wrapper, a very elegant style or
OvFr Coat
The Strathmore Balmy' Over Coat, newest
style, lined throughout .• .•
Autumn and Winter Trowsers, in Tweed and
Doeskin 0 10 6
Best ItlaciE Cassimere ditto •• •• • • .•• •• 16 0
Autumn and Winter Vests •• • • .. •• • • • •
Best Black Cloth ditto •• • • 0 13 6
Black_Silk Velvet ditto • •
—from 325. to 2 15 0
Dress. Coats. • •..• • • • •
„ Frock •••• .. • • .... • • from 355. to 33 0
Missal. And Tante Sults.• .... ••••• • • • .• from 1 6 0
Superfine •• ••••••••••• • • •• • •• •• .... 115 0
Men's Shooting Coat ••••.•• • • • •• • •• • 015 0
Elegant Dressing Robes, in great variety,
froze
A Medid, bentaining an Almanae for the year 1850, win be pre-
sented every customer.
A Large Stock of Far Coats, in every shape, from 608.40 201.
- • Naval and Military 11Riforras, Liveries, toe:
Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes' notice.
A Suit of `Mourning complete for :11. 10s.
The new book, entitled!' The Minion of the Million," with Mil
directions for Self-measurement, can be had en application, or for-
warded, post free, to any part of the kingdom.
Notice—The Fur Department is new replete with every novelty
of the season.
Observe—Any article purchased, either ready made, or made to
measure, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned.
'E. MORES and SON, Tailors, W'oollendraPers, Clothiers, 'Tatters,
11:+sletr, Farriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, 154,
155, 156, an 157 Minories, and 85, 84, 85, and 86 Aldgate, City,
London ; all corarannicating with each other, and forming . one vast
Establishment.
Csitition.—E. Moses and Son regret having to guard the public
against imposition; but having heard *that the untradesmanlike
falsehood of being connected with them, or "It is the sr-me concern,"
has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons,
bey beg to state that they have no connexion with any other bons.
in or out of London, except their Branch Establishments, .36, . Far-
gate, Sheffield ; and 19, Thornton 's-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire;
those who require cheap and genuine clothing, &0., should call
at or 'owl to the Minories and Aldgate, City, London ; or either of
the Branch Establishments, as above.
rake Notice.—Thiel Establishment is dosed from sunset. Friday,
to knnsot Ratnniay. when brininess is resumed till twelve ertionk.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
LEEDS, JAN. 22.—The reported arrivals of grain are
small, but the quantity of wheat offering is quite equa;
to the demand, which continues very limited, yet in the
business trans ,cted Friday's rates are maintained. Barley
steady. Beans, peas, and other articles are without mate-
rial alteration. Wheat, 4,260; oats, 65; barley, 1,182;
beans, 600; shelling, 94; rapeseed, 107.
WISBECH, JAN. 19.—We are well supplied with
grain of all kind-. Ths best dry wheat meets a fair de-
mand, at about the prices of last week; whilst the damp
inferior samples are dull sale, at rather less money.
Oats and berns maintain their former value. Wheat,
white, 395 to 41s--extra, 435; ditto, red, 34s to 38s—
extra, 40s periquarter. Oats, lid to 8 d per stone.
Beano, new, 245 to 261 per quarter.
PRESTON, JAN. 19.--Owing to a prevalence of wind
from the east, the arrivals are insignificant. There being
no lively symptoms in other leading markets, the trade
here during the week has exhibited less firmness, and in
the limited business passing prices have been the turn in
favour of the buyers. There was only a very moderate
supply of English wheat this morning, which met a slow
sale at the rates of this day ae'nnight. Very little de-
mand for Irish, though offered at an abatement of ld per
bushel. Foreign neglected. Flour unaltered in value.
Prime mealing oats sustained our last quotations, but
secondary qualities were rather cheaper. Farmers' oat-
meal declined 6d per load, and Irish manufsture moved
slowly, at a reduction of 3d per 2401 b. All other articles
as last noted.
NoTTINCHAM,JAN.I9—The weather has been very wet
to-day, which caused a small attendance at market, and
consequently less !grain offering than usual. The best
samples of wheat obtained last week's prices—inferior
sorts a shade lower. Barley was in fair suppy, and
there being but few buyers, late rates were with diffi-
culty maintained. There was no variation in the value
of either oats or beans, and but little doing in them.
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 22.—We had
a fair supply of beasts at this morning's market. The
quality was generally good. The trade was brisk, and
usual number shown, and the whole cleared off.
all sold. The sheep trade was somewhat better,
about the'
x,
Beasts, 600;
sheep, 4,300. Beef, 4s 6d to 6s Od per
stone; mutton,
4id to sid per lb.
DUBLIN, TtlEsr)
JAN. 22.—We had a fair supply
and a very dull mark
t at our Corn Exchange to-day.
Wheat moved off at abot: ._‘
t the prices of last market, but
in some instances a reductio
of 3d per barrel was sub-
t:
Scarcely a transaction
milted to on barley and oats.
-Ter rates would have
.7
barley, Ils 6d
oocurred in Indian corn, though 10,
boon submitted to to do busieest..* Whit© wheat,
20; to '23s; red ditto, 19i Gd to 21s 60';
oatmeal
3d
to 14s; oats (per barrel), 9s 63 to lOs ;
lOs 6,1 to Ils 6i; Bakers' flour (per cwt), 12s 6d to
16s; Indian corn, per 480113, 26s to 29s 6d.
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 22.—There
in the market to-day 30 sacks oatmeal, each weighing
2801bs imperial, whereof 28 sold thus:-0 at 1/ 6s Od,
0 at 1/5s 6d, 6 at 115 s, 20 at 114 s 6d, :l at 114 s, and
2at 11 3s 03; averse price of the whole 114 s 5d 9-12ths.
4 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 28s, and 2 at
26s 01 1 sack barleymeal, which Was not :old. 13 sacks
pot-barley. which sold thus:-1 at 11a4 6a, latl/ 3s
Gd, lat 11311 oi, 2at 112 s 6d, and 8 112:7, 01-

COAL MARKET..-..YESTERDAY.
Ilolywell

The stream anchor and cable were laid out, and hove
taut, and at 2.10 P. m. the ship was love, off into deep
wa•er, having been nearly thredhours on shore. For-
tunately the water at the timel was glassy smooth, so
that the ship lay perfectly quiet.untileashort time before
getting off, when she lifted and struck ..heavily by the
bow two or three times, bringing away on each occasion
small pieces of her falseleel. The ship made no water,
and I did n6t consider her much- damaged. Remained
at anchor during the night.
June 26, nine, .s.at , weighed, with a light S.E. wind,
but was obliged to anchor again in a very exposed posi-
tion, near the Island of Slaritchliov, it being a calm, with
a current setting directly on shore. A thick fog and
dead calm during the night. Quantities of fish and crabs
were caught at this position.
June 17=-At ton .a.k. we-we?led, with ti light N.E.
wind, which took us clear of th sheate off the entrance,
and almost immediately -we entered a dense fog.
Struggling with light variable winds and fogs, we did
not pass Bheriog's Island until the 2d of July. On the
morning of 'the 13th we passed the carcass of a dead
whale, and in the forenoon-another... Shortly afterwards
we exchanged colours with one of the American
whalers we had seenat Petropaulski, and before twelve
o'clock the other two.r Large flocks of the little crested
auk shout the ship. At noon the N.W. end of St.
Lawrence 'lsland, bore duo oast, distant twelve miles.
Running during the night witiva fresh S.S.W. wind and
thick weather. Hauled up for the Asiatic shore at seven
A
Lawrence Bay, having
experienced in that time a current of twenty-five miles
to the northward. At ii.3o_passing within three miles
' tuknednerorethael.n sail,t6 make the land, which we did
near point of St.
of East Cape, shaped our course for Cape Espenberg
(Kotzebue Sound), with a very strong S.E. wind.
In passing aimosa the straits we saw to the north-
ward of the Diomede Islands two other whale ships,
trying entoonwt.ith their heads to the S.W., one of them
we passed over the shoal spoken of by Cap-
tain Beechey, off Schismarief Inlet, and found in
seven fathoms the least water, the ma at the time so
high and hollow that it frequently' broke into our main
chains.
passed
daylight, shortlytne afteron only
Running along the low land off Cape Espenberg,
which
midnight. We had un-
interrupteddifference between the
light at midnight and noon being as the, light of a
November's day in England is to that of a summer's one.
As we entered the Sound the wind gradually light
ened and veered to the eastward. Passed several logs of
we
drift-wood. •
- -
15th of July—Shortly after eight, a.m., we male out
a vessel, at anchor under Chamisso Wand, and at ten
exchanged numbers with her Majesty's ship Plover. We
reached the anchoiage by One, p.m., having run in fifty
hours from the west end of St. Lawrence Island to the
anchorage off Chamisso.
Commander Moore came on board, from whoin I was
owl to learn that the officers and crew were all healthy
and in mood spirits. Ile had only arrived at six A.M. the
day previous, having passed the winter in a harbour dis-
coverod by the Plover on the C A •ISIS It. shore, close to
the south of Cape Tchukotsky.
Before my arrival two boats had been 'dispatched for
the Mackenzie River, under the command of Lieutenant
Lee; lertunately the Herald hove in sight before it was
too late to signalise them; the boats saw the recall, and
returned.

We commenced immediately on our arrival to coal
and provision the Plover, and by 9 A.M. she had on
board all the bread ehe could stow, half her coals, and a
proportion of other provision.
July 16--We were occupied in stewing Plover's pre-
visions and coals, removing officers, discharging objec-
tionable men, and filling up. their vacancies from our
own complement. While this was going on I went with
Commander Moore and his actiag ice-master to examine
the different bays on the east side of Choris Peninsula,
for a wintering station for the Plover. We found very
shoal water iu all of them, shoaling gradually northerly
towards the east peninsula. They were of opinion that
if a vessel did winter there she would be greatly exposed,
and probably, on the breaking up of the ice, be carried
into the straits or shoved up on to the beach.
At nine P.M. both ships were ready to sail, but our
main cap having
been reported very rotten, I was de-
tained the next day (17th) to shift it.
On each day of our stay we were visited by two
baidars, carrying twelve men each; all of them were
particularly tall, well built, well armed, and without
either their women or dogs.
At first they wero rather shy, but as soon as the in-
terpreter began t) speak t) them in their language—
that is, in a dialect which some of them understood—
they appeared delighted, came on board, looked all over
tit) ship, and returned (after I had made each of them
some trifling present) without attempting to pilfer any-
thing.
They belonged to Spafaroif Inlet, and expressed their
delight at meeting with, and being recognised by, Lieut.
Cooper and others who had visited them at their place
last year, making presents to them without seeking a
return.
Commander Moore and myself accompanied them to
Chemise° Island, where after hauling up their baidars,
canting them bottom to the wind, the weather gunwale
resting on the sand, the other raised about three feet,
and supported by paddles, the space underneath covered
with fare, we partook of several pipes with them.
Whilst we were engaged with our pipes Commander
Moore
left by employed his beat's crew in digging for the flour
Cayetain Beechey twenty-three years before, in a
es
ind
erreambol
ev
space
~.-ext,ed by direr ions on a rock, which were as
position incli
v when cut. We found this rock last
perfect as the o..ae h be
t dtg • _
chAaivmeceosnfreed, only ad-
T3lleear,nbautitv,esst:pdpiodat.nnt7:.
was cleared two lower bilge staves; yet
th of two boats' crews,
the. flocur
itttso
tiering to th
e roundssand
tbhyo ihaes
_ is required the united stretng

We experienced in the ship until six P.M. of the 23d
a tedious calm ; the current fortunately set us north,
half a mile per hour. During this time we were visited
by two baidara, with the same party of natives we had
seen off Cape Lisburne ; they came along fearlessly,
and disposed of every article they had ; the women
selling their fur dresses, even to their second pair of
breeches, for tobacco and beads.
During the evening of the 233 and the morning of the
24th we were running to the N.E.. with a moderate
S.S.W. wind and a thick f )g, clearing at intervals fir a
short time. Walrusses' whales, and flocks of eider duck
about. We were guided as to our approach to the ice
by the temperature of the sea.
July 25, A..3l.—The wind shifted to the N.W.;
brought with it cold but fine and clear weather; steer-
ing fir Wainwright's Inlet, the vast numbers of wal-
russes that surrounded us keeping up a continual bellow-
ing or grunting. The barking of the innumerable seats
the small whales, and the immense flocks of ducks con-
tinually rising from the water as we neared them,
warned us of our approach to the ice, although the tem-
perature f the sea was still high. Wo made the land a
litt'e before noon, ten miles to the northward of Wain-
-A....right's • Inlet. At two P.M. we anchored eleven
fathoms, about three miles off its entrance. The Plover
and yacht had done so about an hour before.
In running down along the coast a post was observed
on the higher land, near the entrance or the inlet;"
shortly afterwards a man was seen to hoist on it (what
we most of us made out to be) a flag. The Plover soon
afterwards dipped her ensign (simply to clear it as we
afterwards learned); this was answered by the person at
the post doing the same, rind entirely removing it.
I immediately lowered a boat, and sent Lieutenant
Cooper, of this ship, to the shore. He walked up to the
post, and found it to be nothin4 more than a native
mark for a quantity of blubber and reindeer flesh he
discovered buried there. The native had left. Lieute-
mut Cooper, after remaining there some time, returned
on board- without seeing anybody.
My reasons for selecting this piano to equip and
dispatch the boats from, instead of proceeding as fsr
north as the ships should go, was that I considered it of,
the greatest importance that the Ploveetl winteri-ig ra-
tion should be known by the officer in command of the
boat expedition.-
_•_ _ _

Commenced immediately to hoist out the bostp, equip
and provision them. While this was going on I dis-
patched Mr. Hill, master of the ship, to sound the
entrance of the inlet. He returned on board a little b
fore midnight, and made to me the following report:—
That' the channel was very narrow end winding; that
nine feet was the most water that could with certainty
be carried in, and that even to insure that depth the
channel would require close buoying; that a fair wind,
or a calm, so that a vessel might either sail or be:towed.
in, was necessary, the channel being too narrow and in-
tricate to warp througb. Once in, he reports that there
is a sufficiency of water and a convenient spot for the
Plover to winter..

From this rePort I found that it was impossible frit
the Plover to enter this inlet with the water found there,
but as the entrance was encumbered with some heavy
pieces of ice aground, which daring our stay was break-
ing up ast, I conceived it very probable that after they
had disappeared the channel might become more direct
and deeper. I therefore determined lo return and make
a closer eiramivation of the inlet as soon as I had seen
the boats as far north as we could reach in the ships.
The beats were therefore directed to visit Wainwright's
Inlet on their return, in ease it should prove practicable
for the Plover to enter, but that, under any circum-
stances, sh'e would belound in the Chamisse Island.

Mr. Hill met there about 40 natives, who were very
friendly at first, but when they found he was about to
leave them, they became annoying, pulling *heir baidars
across his bows, and fouling his oars, not with any hos-
tile intentions, but simply to delay his departure, so
that they might have time to barter with him for some
of his riches. . .

By midnight-the-boats were all ready, and shoved off
under three hearty cheers from the ships, which were as
heartily returned by the boats.
This little expedition consisted of 25 persons and
four boats, as fJilows:—Lieutenant Pullen, commanding
the Herald's 30-foot pinnace, fitted on board with the
greatest care, thoroughly decked, schooner-rigged, and
called the Owen, furnished.with pumps, spare rudder,
and a strengthening piece of 2-inch plank above her
water line. _ __ •

Two 27-foot whale boats, new beats, brought out by
her Majesty's ship Asia fr)m England, covered in abaft
as far as the backboard, but without either boxes or
cases, the provisions being stowed, the bread in painted
bags, and -the preserved meats between tarpawlings.
The men's clothes were in haversacks, capable of re-
moval in a moment.

Plover's pinnace, a half-decked, boat, with cases for
her provisions, &c., so placed as to resist pressure from

_
the ico.
There was placed in the boats 70 days' preserved
meats for the whole party, all the other articles of pro-
visions, except bread, to the same extent, being also
soldered upiin tins. In addition to these the Owen had
on board eight men's allowance of the regular ship's
provisions. • After she was stowed with this proportion,
,every corner that would hold a case of preserved meat
was filled. The two larger boats carried in lack of them
five eases of pemmican for the especial use of Sir John
Franklin's party.
The ships weighed in company with the boats, and
ran along the land within about three miles, with a mo-
derate off-shore wind.
July 21—At four A.M. the: ice could be seen in heavy
masses, extending from the shore near the Sea Horse
Islands. At six we were obliged to heave in conse-
quence of a dense fog. This cleared off at half-past
eleven. The Plover was close to, but neither the boats
nor the yacht were in sight.
We both made sail, steering true north, and were, at
one P.M., in lat. 71 deg. 5 min., where we made the
heavily packed ice, extending nearly as far as the eye
could reach from N. W. by W. to:N.E. At this time we had
soundings in forty fathoms mud—the deepest water we
have had since leaving the island of St. Lawrence. We
continued running along the pack until eight p.m., when
a thick fog coming on, we ran two or three miles south,
and hove to, wind blowing from N.N.E., and directly off
the ice. We had run along it thirty miles.
The pack was composed of a dirty-coloured ice, not
more than five or six feet high, except some pinnacles
de ply seated in the pack, which had no doubt been
thrown up by the floes coming in contact. Every fb w
miles the ice streamed off from tho pack, through which
the Plover railed. . _ _

„..,
July 29--At half past one the fog cleared off; the
pack from N.N.W. to N.N.E., distant about six miles.
Made sail during the forenoon, running through streams
of loose ice. At ten passod some large and heavy floes.
Commander Moore considering them sufficiently heavy
and extensive to obtain a suite of magnetical observa-
tions, dropped the Plover through between them, and
made fist with ice anchors under the lee of the largest
in a most seamanlike manner.
I landed en the fl-e, with Lieutenant Trollop . The
latitude, time, and variation, were obtained on it (lat.
71 30 N.; long. 162 5 W.); but the other observations
were vitiated by its motion in azimuth, and by the con-
stant breaking away the level would not stand. We bad
23 fathoms mud alongside it and no current.
I found the ice driving slowly to the southward, with
the N.N.E. wind then blowing fresh. Very few walrus
and but a single diver seen. The general height of this

I worked on short tacks, close along shore, the sound-
ings in muddy bottom decreasing and increasing as we
approached or receded from the land. Shortly after six
o clock A.M. we again anchored off the entrance of Wain-
wright's Inlet.
Not a particle of the ice seen on our former visit re-
mained. We had not long anchored when we observed
the native carrying their baidars across the narrow neck
between the inlet and the sea and launching them.
Wishing to get as many of them as I could off to the
ship, so as to have fewer to molest me on shore, I de-
tained the boats until two of them came alongside. They
approached us slowly, frequently resting on their pad-
dles, the bowman each time invariably holding up his
hands over his head at an angle of forty-five degrees,
when lowering them passing them over his breast and
stomach. I made the boatswain do the same from the
forecastle netting. They always waited for his answer
before they recommenced paddling.
I made them each, a present of some tobacco and
bead!, which they could hardly understand that I in-
tended t givd without return.
• I left the ship with three boati, for the examination of
the inlet," and gave permission to the ship's company to
trade with thenatives for whatever they had to dispose
of, consisting mostly of small figures and tools of ivory,
kW's, arrows, a few furs, sealskin boots, and pieces of
reindosea

I had not lie long.on shore belore these natives left
the ship AO feiktw Nothing, could exceed their
good hirmouy....-del# alkult to, commence my observa-
Htions; 4 :60100 ,411 golug to cease, drew a large semi-
. circle., ,) trnin. water's edge to water's edge,
sod the hetats!libies 'bepteen its points- They
nee etTiPetfeet*.te uta3c stand be I/teenier of-this line;
not 664 oC theirtuattemPted to Oviiitep. it; they squatted '
down, and remained perfectly quiet and silent. When a.
starlipetiVrsefclitrey shoutetite hini,-who no sooner un-
deiasteads- theM.tausa: he Crept rather than walked to the
lath: had sqaztttedamengst the rest. They danced
acid sang fir our amusement, played football with the
.Aaatteaen t Who had not a chance with them), and displayed
their elcill ia.ahoeting;at zv mark. Plover anchored in
company soon it er noon. Calm.
Vatuoatiaalv 'Moore went on shore, erected a mark,
and buried isottle, with inforination of the boats. I
hid satisfied myself before his arrival that ten fe.4 was
do greatest depth that could be carried in; I there,re
called upon him to famish me wits a report of what his
vessel coilfti be lightened to, a copy of which I have
the honona 16 enclose.
By it the it Letdships will perceive that, short of taking
the Plover's masts out, she could not be lightened suffi-
.oiently-to enter the inlet. Could it have been. done by
any partial lightening I shratid have attempted it, being
in every way. so very desirable a position—in the first
place, from its high latitude, the friendliness of the na-
tives; the supply of reindeer's flesh we found could be
obtained there, there bo!ag no other harbour south of
it nearer than the KotzAme Sound, and, lastly, the opi-
nions of the iceniasters of the exposure to which a vessel
wintering in the latter place would be subjected. Inside
there 18 a good depth of water, and in one spot the
Plover might have been placei alongside a bank, will
sheltered.
The natives gave me to understand that a considerable
river runs into it; at least one that they can, in their
baidars, navigate for many days, and that it ran to. the
S.E.; that on its banks, and in the neighbourhood of
the inlet, the reindeer collected in great numbers, in
their progress northerly, and in their return south.
The natives began to leave as, as before, by eight
P.m., tracking their baidars with dogs to their tents in a
little sanday bay, a mile north of as. By the time we
were ready to go off there was not one with us.
I was sorry to find that, after all their good behaviour,
they had been guilty of picking the pockets of two or
three. One lost a handkerchief, another a glove, Com-
modore Moore a box of caps, and the naturalist a small
glass bottle, containing spirits and water.
Wednesday, Aug. I—During the night we had a thick
fog, which cleared at five .L.M. The boats left the ship to
continue their examination; Commander Moore and my-
self to obtain.a suite of magnetical and other observations.
I returned to the ship shortly after noon with the boats
to put my work on paper. Commander Moore went up
the inlet, and found some baidars that had just arrived
with several reindeer cut in quarters. They wore stowing
it with a considerable quantity they had already collected
in a hole dug on the sand spot off Point Collie, and ap-
peared much annoyed at their stow-hole having been
discovered. It was deep, and lined with logs of wood,
having a roof formed , also of logs about five feet above
the ground, and covered with moss. For a small quan-
tity of tobacco they ,sold flOolbs.—as much as Com-
mander Moore's boat could carry. Learning from him
that they were willing to dispose of more, I sent Lieu-
tenant Cooper, the naturalist, and the surgeon, in a light
boat to purchase it; seeing the boat pulling in fast
directly for them, they got alarmed, and at length, before
the boat touched the beach, a woman walked to the
water's edge and held up the bottle the naturalist had
lost the day before, making signs to him when he landed
that it had been picked up on the beach. It was in the
same state as when he lost it, the cork never having been
removed. They at least understand that stealing is an
offence. At first they appeared rather sulky, and un-
unwilling to part with any of their meat; after a few
presents they resumed their former good humour and
sold fourteen quarters, all of them of young animals—it
was without a particle of fit, badly killed, but still was
owned by most on board to be very sweet and tender
meat.

In the afternoon a long westerly swell rolled in, with
a very light wind still uff the land; at 6 o'clock it
shifted to the southward, with a threatening appearance.
We both immediat3ly weighed and stood off the land,
in a thick fog, and with a falling barometer.
August 2—At 9 A.M. the fog cleared off. Tho Plover
was nowhere to be seen, and the wind was gradually in-
creasing.
August 3—At 9 A.M. were reduced to treble-reefed
topsails and reefed courses, with a very short,
off
trying sea. We were obliged to carry to it to keep
the land, the current setting, as we found it
onallotceaan-
sions, with the wind—rather stronger off Icy Cape h
r s,
the
iu other parts of this seat.
and by 5 A.M.
August 4 —Wind
died
igwrauydat:lalycvsieel
mr.ed
Irt
tto r itahbel westward,
e
3 packed in 11 fathoms be-
' on Icy Cape; atelfpa ,
' wind settled in the S. W. At 3 P. M. ceuld see the stages
fare trimming ere in 8. Very gloomy, squally,
and threatening weather. In standing off fell in with
the Plover again, signalized our position to her, and ap-
pointed Cape Lisburne as a rendezvous. Whales seen,
also large flocks of ducks and geese, going southerly.
August 5,6, and 7—Fresh breezes, with heavy falls
and
falls
cf snow, but what with the current, the trying sea,
the wind always breaking us off in whichever way we
tried to go, we could not make R mile of westing until
the afternoon of the Bth, when the wind shifted sud-
denly to the N.W.; stood to the W.S.W.
August 9.—ln the morning passed the carcass of a dead
whale, and another in the al.ernuon. I sent a boat to
this one, stuck a flag in it, and buried a bottle, contain-
ing a current paper, a notice of my whereabouts, and of

In running a course along the pack towards our first
discovery, a small group of islands was reported o❑ our
port. beam, a considerable distance within the outer mar-
gin of de ice.
The pack hero was not so close as I found it before.
Lanes of water could be seen reaching almost up to the
group, but too ra•row to enter unless the ship had been
sufficiently fortified to force a bole for herself.
These small islands at intervals were ♦ery distinct, and
were not considered at the time very distant.
Still more distant than this group (from the deck) a
very extensive and high land was reported, which I had
been watching for some time, and anxiously awaited a
report from some one else. There was a tine clear at-
mosphere (such a one as can only be seen in this climate)
except in the direction of this extended laud, where the
clouds rolled in numerous immense masses, occasionally
leaving the very lofty peaks uncapped, where could be
distinctly mil columns, pillars, and very broken, which
is characteristic of the higher headlands in this sea—
East Cape and Cape Lisburne, for example.
With the exception of the N.B. and S.E. extremes,
none of the lower land ;:c mld be seen, unless, indeed,
wliat I took at first for a small group of islands within
the pack edge was a point of this great land.
This island or point was distant twenty-five miles from
the ship's track, higher parts of the land ss,en not loss, I
consider, than sixty. When we hove to off the first land
seen the northern extreme of the groat laud showed out
to the eastward f a moment, and so clear as to cause
some who hid doubts before to cry out, " There, Sir, is
the. land quite plain."
From the time laud was reported until we hove to
under it, we ran twenty-live miles directly for it. At
first we could not ate that the pack joined it, hut as we
approached the island, we found the pack to rest on the
isian', and to extend from it as far as the eye could
reach to the E.S.E.

The weather, which had heet fine all day, now changed
suddenly to dense clouds and snow showers, blowing
fresh from the south, with so much sea that I did not
anchor as 1 intended.

I left the ship with two boats; the senior lieutenant,
Mr. Maguire; Mr. Seeman, naturalist; and Mr. Collie-
son, mate, in one; Mr. Goodridge, surgeon; Mr. Paken-
ham, midshipman; and myself, in tho other; almost
despairing of being able to reach the island.

The ship kept off, and outside the thickest part of the
loose ice, through which the boats were obliged to be
very careful in picking their way, on the S.E. side,where
I thought I might have ascended. We reached the
island, and found running on it a very heavy sea; the
first lieutenant, however, landed, having backed his boat
in until he could get foothold (without swimming), and
then jumped overheard. I followed his example; the
others were anxious to do the same, but the sea was so
high that I could not permit them.
We hois t!,(1 the jack and took possession of the island
with the usual ceremonials, in the name of her Most
Gracious Majesty Queen-Victoria.
The extent we bad to walk over was not more than

thirty f;;;;:- From this space and a short distance that
We scrambled up we collected eight species of plants;
specimens of the rock were also brought away.
With the time we could spare and our materials, the
island was perfectly inaccessible to us. This was a
great disappointment to us, as from its summit, which is
elevated above the sea 1,400 feet, much could have been
seen, and all doubt set aside, more particularly as I
knew the moment I got on board I should be obliged to
carry sail to get off the pack and out of the bight of it
we were in; neither could I expect that at this late period
of the season the weather would improve.
The island on which I 1 anded is four miles and a half

in extent east and west, and about two and a half north
and south, in the shape of a triangle, the western end
being its apex. It is almost inaccessible on itt aide.,
and a solid mass of granite. Innumerable black and
white divers (common to this sea) here found a safe
place to deposit their eggs and bring up their young ;
not a walrus nor seal was seen on tts shore, or on the
ice in its vicinity. We observed here none of the small
land birds that were so numerous about us 'before making
'the land.
It becomes a nervous thing to report a discovery of
without actually
ilatnidsimngoreonthitan,
lardafter
thein tuhne
is take to the southward; but as
a man can be certain, who has 130 pair of eyes to
assist him, and all agreeing, I am certain we have dis-
fsearturengaitoenms
probable mak:, continuation of
coveredatnhaetxttehnessievepelaankds.
wel
stahwinka,
the range of mountains seen by the nativesoff Cape
Jakan
Jakan (coast of Asia), mentioned by Baron Wrangel in
hi,s Polar voyages. I returned to the ship at seven Pzd
and very reluctantly-made all the sale we could carry•.'
from this interesting neighbourhood to the south-past,
the wind at the time allowing
me to lie just clear of the
pack.

August IS—Towards the morning we bad a 'very
strong Kind, with cc-natant snow storms and excessive
cold. The wind having changed to northward, left me
:3.OA(.llllgtzst.t. hut to return to my rendezvous for the boats.
20—Sighted Cap Listural in a- thick fog;
Hauled off to wait clear weather; passed several Carcases
of whales.
August 21— A t two. r.ss. again made the Cape; found
the high land heavily covered with snow, and the low land
partially. Very threatening weather; remained-off and
on until noon of the'23d, when we anchored in fourteen
fathoms, about 25 miles to the southward of the Cape.
Here I landed, accompanied by the naturalist and seve-
ral officers. I erected a mark, and buried a bottle. A
be tutiful 'stream of water ran into this bay. The natu-
ralist had a good harvest on its banks, which were
literally covered with flowers, removed only a few feet
from what I considered to be perpetual snow. Quantities

of coal were also found here. -
There wore about 43 natives, all of whom we bad
seen before, very poor and miserable-Itgkiug, but very