CHAPTER VIII.
Journey across Melville Island to the Northern Shore, and Return to the Ships by a different Route.
CHAPTER IX.
Occurrences at Winter Harbour in the early Part of June.—Gradual
Dissolution of the Ice upon the Sea and of the Snow upon the
Land.—Decease and Burial of William Scott.—Equipment of the
Ships completed.—Temperate Weather during the Month of
July.—Breaking up of the Ice near the Ships.—Move to the lower
Part of the Harbour.—Separation of the Ice at the
Entrance.—Prepare to Sail.—Abstract of Observations made in
Winter Harbour.
CHAPTER X.
Leave Winter Harbour.—Flattering Appearance of the Sea to the Westward.—Stopped by the Ice near Cape Hay.—Farther Progress to the Longitude of 113° 48' 22.5", being the Westernmost Meridian hitherto reached in the Polar Sea, to the North of America.—Banks's Land discovered.—Increased Extent and Dimensions of the Ice.—Return to the Eastward, to endeavour to penetrate the Ice to the Southward.—Re-enter Barrow's Strait, and Survey its South Coast.—Pass through Sir James Lancaster's Sound on our Return to England.
CHAPTER XI.
Progress down the Western Coast of Baffin's Bay.—Meet with the
Whalers.—Account of some Esquimaux in the Inlet called the River
Clyde.—Continue the Survey of the Coast till stopped by Ice in
the Latitude of 68¼°.—Obliged to run to the Eastward.—Fruitless
Attempts to regain the Land, and final Departure from the
Ice.—Remarks upon the probable Existence and Practicability of a
Northwest Passage, and upon the Whale Fishery.—Boisterous Weather
in Crossing the Atlantic.—Loss of the Hecla's Bowsprit and
Foremast.—Arrival in England.