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

CHAPTER XV.

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Extraordinary Disruption of Ice in Quilliam Creek.--Some Appearance of Scurvy among the Seamen and Marines--Discovery of Gifford River.--Commence cutting the Ice outside the Ships to release them from their Winter-quarters.--Considerations respecting the Return of the Expedition to England.--Unfavourable State of the Ice at the Eastern Entrance of the Strait.--Proceed to the Southward.--Ships beset and drifted up Lyon Inlet.--Decease of Mr. George Fife.--Final Release from the Ice, and Arrival in England.--Remarks upon the practicability of a Northwest Passage.

THIRD VOYAGE

INTRODUCTION