Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-10-20

a few blankets and n tarpaulin, composed the
sleeping accommodations Of the party. They
had eighty miles 10 go upon the ice, but as their
party were weak, both in number and in health
they were obliged to take one boat ats iime.-
The hummocks in the ice were often three or
four feet high, and the eighty miles were trav-
ersed by many Of the party several times over.
The ship was left about the Goth Of May, and
they we're a month in traversing the eighty
miles of ice. In one single day, after launch
ing their boats, they made by a splendid sail,
almost as much as they had during the month
previous.
After several months Of dangerous and tedious
progress through the ice, at last they were graft
fled and delighted at the sight Of Cape Dudley
Diggs, which is well known to whaleTs. From
there they ran on until they met the ice OF the
great glacier, a little north Of Cape York.
Here they we're detained by the ice for a week,
but as their quarters were near an immense
coonery, where countless thousands of birds kept
up a continual cawing, and they were able to
shoot as many as they pleased, they were not
very impatient. Each man ate one or two Of
them at a meal, and they made up for lost time.
A, las, the ice released them, and without very
much obstruction they arrived at Cape York a
bout the middle of July. During the passage
they lived principally on the little ank, with
which. for miles and miles north Of Cape York
the air is continually darkened. One Of our in
formants said that they were as thick as flies on
a molasses barrel. The tapping of their wings
made a noise like the roar Of the sea. No idea
can be formed Of their abundance north Of Cape
York, which seems to be their southern limit in
summer. When shot at they try to escape by
diving, and you always have a chance to blaze
away at them again. They were proceeding
slowly through the fog, when they heard a loud
cry, which they recognized as proceeding from
civilized Esquimaux. They were astonished,
on pulling in the direction Of the sound, to see
a Danish boat with white men on board. From
these they learned of the expedition in search Of
them, and the Danish news of the world gener-
ally. Leaving the Danes to look for %blubber,
they went on 10 an island, from sheer exhaus-
tion. The next day they went on in the fog,
at a venture, and after pulling about three points
too much TO the westward, they suddenly heard
dog bark. Turning in the direction they pull
ed with all their might till they got inside Of
some old landmarks, which quickened poor Pet
erson's blood. They raised the American flag
on one boat and the Danish on the other, and
noiselessly pulled around the point, concealed
by the fog--a fog which was TO open to their
view the first settlement of Christian men which
their eyes had seen for more than two years.
The news had not gone further till they had
nearly drawn up to the beach. The Esquimaux
women first came out in their homespun, and
were soon followed by the men, all in the great
est excitement. All the people at once came
down to see the strange arrival. Poor Mr. Pc
terson was restored TO the arms of his loving
wife and numerous supposed orphan children,
and quarters were provided for the party at Up
ernavik. Here they we're obliged to wait until
the sailing of the Danish bark in which they
took passage for England.
They received much attention on board the
bark, the Mary Ann, on their way to Lievely,
where they arrived on the 10th of September.
To Captain Anderson, of the bark, they were
much indebted for polite and kind attentions
He anticipated every wan, and did all in his
power to make them comfortable. Aner stay
ing at Lievely a week they met with the Harris
tein expedition.
Among the geographical results Of this ex-
petition are Greenland has been followed and
charied by DR. Kane toward the Atlantic with a
coast line pointing due north, until a stupendous
glacier absolutely checked their progress. This
mass of ice rose in a lofty p~recipice FIVE hun
bred feet high, abuiting into the sea. 1t un-
doubleday is the only barrier between Greenland
and the Atlantic. 1t is an ~eifeciual barrier to
all future exploration. This glacier, in spite
Of the difficulty of falling berss, was followed
out TO sea by means of sledges the party raft
inn ,hamsa1vaa across omen wafer snaras On