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 1

CHAPTER XI.

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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.

SECOND VOYAGE.

PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.