The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-01

where they landed and called the land Bootha in honor
Of Sir Felix Booth who fitted out the expedition. They
wntered at Felix Harbor both places having become
remarkable by the visit Of the yacht Fox and the
discovery of Franktns remains by McClintock. Here
ALSO James Ross ascertaned the location Of the magnetic
pole to be in the southern part of Bootha marked
map This expedition lasted four years, during which
the crew endured the utmost privatons. On the
Goth Of May, 1882, the Victory was abandoned
and the party attempted the terrible journey
the frozen and land In their boats towards Ba
fms Bay. Finding Barrow's Strait impenetrable mass
Of ice when they arrived a the junction Of Prince Re-
gents Inlet Goth of August they hauled their boats
shore and pitched their tents After waiting nearly
month in the hope Of advancing they found choice left
but return Fury Beach and there spend their fourth
dismal winter They arrived here the 7th of October
having left their boats the shore at Baty Bay, and
dragging their provisions the ice in sledges The
winter proved terribly one; but in July they
moved to where the boats were left and after waiting
month for open channel resumed their voyage to-
wards Bafnns Bay. They found Barrow's Strait open,
and sailed on past Admiralty Inlet On the 26th Of
August sail hove in sight, which proved be the Isabel
Ia, of Hull, formerly commanded by Ross himself. The
unfortunate navigators taken board and con-
veyed to England, which they reached on the 11th OF
October, 1893, having been four years absent Great
alarm created by the long absence Of Ross and Back
started in search Of him in February 1888 from Montreal
down the st. lawrence and reached Saut Ste Marie
the 11h Of May then coasng Lake SUPERIOR he pushed
to Fort Chppewyan and Fort Resolution the Great
Slave Lake On the 9Th Of August the party struck the
Fish river and Hoar Frost river which they assembled
until forced to abandon the enterprise consequence Of
the rapids. Returning they laid up for the winter at
Great Slave Lake The cold intense and the suffer
crf
almost incredible. About the middle Of
April, as they were preparing to resume their
journey to the Polar Sea, Of Ross safety reach
ed them, to their great Joy Back however, advanced
towards the sea in boats by the Fish river distance OF
$50 miles, and reached the about 81 miles south OF the
Coppermine. This land he called King williams land
after which he rctraced his steps and returned to England
in September, 1885, In June of the following year ho
again set out IN the Terror for journey through Davis
Strait and Hudsons Strait Here getting into the ice in
July, they nipped for four months. The perils
through which the Terror passed at this time are be-
eve without parallel In Arctic advenaure tightly locked
among terrific cebergs sho dashed and dred about
for miles between Capc Comfort and the middle Of
Hudson Strait, until every timber strained that
the crew momcntarly expected TO 60 TO destruction An
attempt made to cut her out with instruments, when
happily the icc broke away July, and the Terror
forced from her dangerous position but in such leaky
condition that Back was compelled to mako direct for
England.
She at last reached tho northwest coast OF Ireland
gradually sinking by tho head, and was run ashore in
Iough Swy the Sd Of September, and had she been
three hours longer At she would certainly have gone
to tho bottom Her whole frame proved to be strained
and twisted many Of her bolts were either oosened or
broken her fcrefooi was entirely gone and upwards OF
twenty feet Of her keel together with ten fee. OF her