Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux; being the narrative of an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862 (1865) (20146211898)

Title: Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux; being the narrative of an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862
Identifier: arcticresearche00hall (find matches)
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871
Subjects: Franklin, John, 1786-1847; Eskimos
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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THE ICE-PACK. 455 make passage over it, down through soft snow we went till our feet rested on stones, which sometimes proved firm and sometimes proved man-traps. JSTow and then we sunk thigh deep, our feet dropping into chinks, and becoming quite firmly wedged therein. As we wound our zigzag way up the steep mountain, I was ex- pecting every moment that my volunteer companion would refuse to go farther, but in this I was happily mistaken. He was a match for me. " I was rejoiced to find, as we drew near the top, that the snow became sufficiently hard to bear us up, thus enabling us to make better progress. The summit was finally reached, and a moment's look around was sufficient to repay me for all the efforts I had made to gain that point. Field Bay, Davis's Strait, Frobisher Bay, and Kingaite were within sight. I was surprised at the height we had evidently gained. Lady Franklin Island, out in
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FIELD BAY AND D AVIS'S STEAIT, FEOM THE HEIGHTS BY BAYAED TAYLOE PASS. Davis's Strait, Monumental Island, and the islands of the extreme land between Frobisher Bay and Field Bay, which I visited last winter, loomed up as I had never seen them before at so great a distance from them, showing that the high land on which I was was high indeed. " I took the spy-glass, and proceeded to make a prolonged ob- servation. I first directed the glass toward the vessel, which was at a distance of seven miles; I then directed it to Davis's Strait. This I saw wfts filled with a heavy pack. I swept with the instrument along down said strait to the extremity of Hall's