Chapter 15

Return to the Eastward through the Frozen Strait.--Discovery of Hurd Channel.--Examined in a Boat.--Loss of the Fury's Anchor.--Providential Escape of the Fury from Shipwreck.--Anchor in Duckett Cove.--Farther Examination of the Coast by Boats and Walking-parties.--Ships proceed through Hurd Channel.--Are drifted by the Ice back to Southampton Island.--Unobstructed Run to the Entrance of a large Inlet leading to the Northwestward.--Ships made fast by Hawsers to the Rocks.--Farther Examination of the Inlet commenced in the Boats.