The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-10-26
ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
From The london Times Of September ss.

From the London Times Of September IS.
The Fox screw discovery vessel, (Captain
McClintock) J which was sent to the Arctic
regions at the expense Of Lady Franklin. 10
discover traces OF the missing expedition.
arrived of the Isle Of Wight on Wednesday,
| the 2lst. Z
Cruise Of the Yacht For, continued from May, SO.
II will be remembered that the Fox effect.
ed her escape out of the main pack in Dayis's
Straits, in latitude 6s4 deg. ~. on the 25th
OF April, 1858, after winters ice drift Of
,l94 geographical miles. ~'.'..
| On the 9Th of May our voyage was RECON-
menced, God d.hayen and Upernivik visited.
Melville Bay entered early in June, and
crossed to Cape York BY the Goth. Here
some natives were communicated with they
Immediately recognised Mr.. Peterson, QUE
interpreter, farnerly known to them in the
Grnnell expedition under DR.. Kane. In
reply to our inquiries for the Esquimaux dog
driver Hans. left behind from the Advance
in 1883. they told US that he was residing at
Whale Sound. - q
IL was not until the eth of July that we
reached Ponds Inlet, owing to most unu-
tion of Bafhn's Bay aud which feHhpee fsed ffed 26fr
progress since leaving Hosteinborg one Of
unceasing struggle. Without steam power
We could have done nothing. Here only one
old woman and boy were found, but they
served to pilot US up the inlet for twenty-five
miles, when we arrived at the village. For a.
bout week we were in constant and most in-
teresting communication with these friendly
people. Briefly, the information obtained
from them was that nothing whatever re-
specting the Franklin expedition had come
to their knowledge, nor had any wrecks with.
in the last twenty or thirty years reached
their shores.
The remains Of three wrecked ships are
known to them. Two of these appear to
have been the whalers Dextcrity and Aurora,
wrecked in August, 1921, some seventy or
eighty miles southwark Of Ponds Inlet. The
! third vessel, now almost buried in the saEd,
/, lies few miles east Of Cape Hay. This
people communicate over land every winter
with the tribes at Igloolik they all knew Of
/ parry's ships having wintered there in 1922
3, and had hesrd Of late years Of DR.. Rae's
visit to Repulse Bay, describing his boats as
similar to uur whale boat. and his party as
living in tents. within sn0w-h houses, smoking
pipes, shooting reindeer. SC. None died.
They remained there only one winter. No
rumor Of the lost expedition has reached
thrm. Within Ponds Inlet the natives told
us the ice decays away every year, but so
long rs any remains whales abound.
On the 9Th Of September We passed through
Bellut Strait without obstruction, and secur-
ed the ship to fixed ice across its western
outlet.
Our wintering position was at the east en-.
trance Of Beilot Strait, in a snsg harbor.
Although vegetation was tolerably abundant,
and our two Esquimaux hunters, Mr.. Peter.
son. and several spOrtsmen constantly on the
alert, yet the resources Of the country dur.
ing eleven and half months only Welded
Us eight reindeer. two bears. eighteen seal,
and few water.fowl and ptarmigan.
The winter was unusually cold and stormy
Arrangements we're completed during the
winter for carrying out our intended plan
Of search. ] felt il to be my duty personal
Is to visit Marshall Island, and in 50 doing
proposed to complete the circuit on King
Williams Island.
| was accompanied BY Mr.. Peterson, our
interpreter. and Alex. Thompson. quarter
master. We had with Us two sledges drawn
BY dogs. On the 2sth Of February, when
near tape Victoria. we had the good fortune
TO meet small party of natives. and were
subsequently visited by about forty five in
ldi,iduals. Fur four days we remained in
communication with them, obtaining many
relics, and the information that several years
ago ship was crushed BY the ice OF the
north shore, ail' King Williams Island, but
that all her people landed safely. and went
away 10 the Great Fish river, where they
died This tribe was well supplied with
! wood, obtained. they said. from boat left
by the white men On the Great river.
We reached our vessel after twenty. .fye
days absence. in good health, but somewhat
reduced by sharp marching. aud the unusu.
alls severe weather TO which we had been
exposed. For several days after starting.
the mercury continued frozen.
!, % the 22d Of April car lsng. protested