A

VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

TOWARDS

THE NORTH

NORTH POLE,

PERFORMED IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS

DOROTHEA

AND TRENT,

UNDER THE COMMAND OF

CAPTAIN DAVID BUCHAN, R.N.;

1818;

TO WHICH IS ADDED, A SUMMARY OF ALL THE EARLY ATTEMPTS TO
REACH THE PACIFIC BY WAY OF THE POLE.

BY

CAPTAIN F. W. BEECHEY, R.N., F.R.S.

ONE OF THE LIEUTENANTS OF THE EXPEDITION.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE
ADMIRALTY.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

1843.

ΤΟ

SIR JOHN BARROW, BART., F.R.S., &c.

THE ORIGINATER AND PROMOTER OF

MODERN ARCTIC DISCOVERY,

THIS VOLUME,

CONTAINING A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER

THE COMMAND OF

CAPTAIN DAVID BUCHAN, R.N.

TOWARDS

THE NORTH POLE,

AND A SUMMARY OF

EARLY ATTEMPTS TO REACH THE PACIFIC BY WAY OF THE POLE,

IS, WITH PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

March, 1843.

HIS FAITHFUL AND OBLIGED FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.