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Title: Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North
Pole, Volume 2 (of 2)

Author: Sir William Edward Parry

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Language: English

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THREE VOYAGES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE FROM THE ATLANTIC
TO THE PACIFIC, AND NARRATIVE OF AN ATTEMPT TO REACH THE NORTH POLE,
VOLUME II

by

SIR W. E. PARRY, CAPT. R.N., F.R.S.

In Two Volumes.

1844

New-York:
Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

SECOND VOYAGE

CONTINUED.

CHAPTER X.

Departure from Winter Island.--Meet with some Esquimaux travelling
to the Northward.--Obstruction and Danger from the Ice and
Tides.--Discovery of the Barrow River, and its Fall.--Favourable
Passage to the Northward.--Arrival off the Strait of the Fury and
Hecla.--Progress opposed by a fixed barrier of Ice.--Communicate
with the Natives of Igloolik.--Unsuccessful Attempt to get between
the Ice and the Land.--Land upon the Calthorpe Islands.--The Fury
drifted by the Ice between two Islands.--Account of a Journey
performed in Sle