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the perils of Lanidential as ,istance it passed 10
and on the 10th Of Sapnd and Bafiin's Bav VIII
ter, latitude 50 degrees eyed into open wa. W"
de south of the Arctic Cries north a IL
leased from an imprisonment o thus re- I Eu
months, during which they helpless nine i I'N
l,06O miles While in Lancaster SOul.I voS
roar Of the rolling water and tumbling ice Au
ceeded all earthly. tumnlt- and waS sometimes
80 loud and stunning as to render both voice
and hearing useless
Captain DE Ravens first care ON his escape
WAS TO repair damages and restore the health
and vigor Of the crews. With that object he
visited Greenland, where he reftted After
short delay, with undated courage and un-
Ainsbing purpose he once more bore north
ward. On the 18th of July, the Expedition
spoke some whalers. and on the Sth passed the
whaling fleet by the Dutch islands, there ar
rested 10y the ice. BY the 18th, the Expedition
reached Bafhns Island and entered through
vast masses of loose ice Here the Prince AL
bert joined. They continued in company till
August Sd, warping through the ice. when the
Prince determined to try the southern passage
De Haven persevered in his course until the
sth, when he became completely entangled in
fioes and bergs Here, again, the Expedition
The floating ice broke in the bulwarks, and
covered the deck in broken masses like rocks
tumbled pell nell by u mountain torrent. The
more than iron endurance of the gallant ships
was severelytested by the crush of the closing
ice, but they rose TO the pressure as if defying
the elemental strife, bafled it's fury, and, some
what disabled, but still without plank yielding
in any vital part, rode safely in an open road
on the 18th day of August.
Here, finding the north and west closed
against them. the American Expedition set their
sails and bore homeward, after having dared,
and suffered and overcome, difficulties and dan
gers such as scarcely, if ever, beset the path of
the mariner.
"lt is supposed the English Expedition win
tered at or near Fort Martyr and thence pros
ecuted their voyage westward. The American
Expedition, therefore was in q position more
favorable to the search IL was in far higher
latitude, and the so-called polyna (open seal
could not have been far distant but the inevi-
table drift into the waters of Lancaster Sound
was fatal to its Spring progress, and fatal to
the chances which its enterprise had won.
The Advance brings several fragments from
the encampment of Sir John Franklin, a pair
of fine Esquimaux dogs, and some articles of
cs2T;;Ss6iy.
Thus ends this noble expedition, without dis
covering any. satisfactory index 70 the fate Of
Sir John Franklin, but at the Game time with
| out any evidence TO conclude further hope
Sir John might have won the point which the
Advance was banked of by the fatal drift into
Lancaster Sound Ii so, and it is not impossi-
BILE, there is no reason to doubt the possibility
of himself and crew surviving in those regions
| where nature has adapted the resources of life
to the rigors of the climate
"The qualification of officers and crew on once
more reaching their native land is in no small
degree enhanced by the recollection, that in no
scene-no matter how trying-was their trust
in, and mutual love for each other, interrupted ;
and Capt DE Haven retains the most lively
recollection of the gallant unhinching conduct
of officers and crew.