Excerpt from Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage, Vol. 1 of 2: From the From to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole to Reach the North Pole
Departure from Winter Island - Meet with some Esquimaux travelling to the N orthward. - Obstruct'on and Danger from the Ice and Tides - Discovery of the Barrow River, and its Fall. - Favourable Passage to the Northward - Arrival ofi'tho Strait of the Fur and Hecla. - Progress'0pposed by a fixed barrier of Ice. Ommunicate With the Natives of lgloolik. - 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 Sledges up an Inlet to the westward.
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