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Title: The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. (etc.) Columbia book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ood. Thus the port of Dundee has now becomethe centre of the English whale-fishing trade ; and car-goes of oil from the Arctic regions may be seen dis- 140 RESCUE OF THE POLARIS CREW. charging alongside of cargoes of jute from Calcutta,both being essential to the prosperity of the port. Oflate years steam has made a great change in naviga-tion, and the steam whalers are not exposed to thesame risks and detentions as fall to the lot of sailingships. The first steam whaler sailed from Dundee in1858, and now a whaling fleet of ten steamers leavesevery spring for Baffins Bay and returns in the fall.Each carries eight whale boats, manned by nearlythe whole crew of sixty men; for few remain on theship when the cry of There she spouts! is heard.It was a steamer of this line, the Ravenscraig,which rescued the crew of the wrecked Polaris, andthe party were carried to Dundee in two others, theIntrepid and the Arctic. The latter steamer had, dur-ing her trip, penetrated into the Gulf of Boothia.
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CHAPTER X. CRUISE OF THE ISABELLA AND ALEX-ANDER. (jOHK BOSS—PARKY.) The Northern seas, as a theatre of adventure, hadheen unoccupied for half a century, and the grandquestion in which England had taken so deep an in-terest was still open. For several years preceding1818, vast masses of ice had floated down from theregions of Baffins Bay, and an unusual opportunityof discovering a North-west passage to the PacificOcean, seemed to present itself. In that year the English government fitted out twoexpeditions; one to search for the North-west passage,the other to attempt a voyage across the Pole. Thefirst consisted of the Isabella of 385 tons, commandedby Captain John Ross, an officer of reputation andexperience, who had twice wintered in the Baltic, hadbeen employed in surveying the White Sea, and beenas far north as Bear Island; and the Alexander of252 tons, commanded by Lieutenant Wm. E. Parry,afterwards famous as an Arctic explorer. On the 18th of April the vessels leffc the Tham.e

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