Identifier: narrativeofvoyag02nare (find matches)
Title: Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6 in H.M. ships 'Alert' and 'Discovery'
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Nares, George S. (George Strong), 1831-1915 Feilden, H. W. (Henry Wemyss), 1838-1921
Subjects: Alert (Ship) Discovery (Ship : Launched 1789) Natural history -- Arctic regions Arctic regions
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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e same time a water-channel opened along shore and we advanced a distance of five miles without much trouble. Seals had now become more plentiful; they and a few dovekies seen in the water-pools gave employment to those with time to spare. Early on the 11th, with the last of the flood-tide the ice again opened slightly and enabled us to reach some large floebergs lying aground a little to the north of St. Patrick's Bay, but by being five minutes too late we were unable to enter the bay before the ice closed in with the change of tide. Observing nine hares feeding on shore, Parr and Moss started in pursuit, and succeeded in shooting four out of a family party of seven. On the 12th, soon after high-water the ice commenced setting off shore. Accordingly we at once pushed on to the southward, the water-channel between the pack and the land obliging me to enter St. Patricks Bay. After several hours delay in passing Distant Point, we opened Discovery Bay; finding it full of
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Lightening a stranded floberg off Cape Beechey (from a photograph) p130 - 1870 ARRIVE AT DISCOVERY BAY. 131 ice we were obliged to secure the ship near Bellot Island until the evening, when with considerable trouble, and after many narrow escapes of being nipped, we at last joined company with the Discovery, after a separation of eleven months and-a-half. As there were no tidings of Lieutenant Beaumont and his party, preparations were immediately made for the Alert to cross the channel to Polaris Bay; all the invalids with the official papers and natural history collections being sent to the Discovery. The ice not permitting us to start, I visited the look-out station with Captain Stephenson, and from an elevation of 1,540 feet, on a clear and calm morning, obtained a magnificent view, but, to our great regret and increasing anxiety, nothing was to be seen of the travellers. A white object was plainly visible at Hall's Rest, but whether it was Beaumonts tent or the second boat, which he would be obliged to abandon and leave there, it was impossible

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