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As soon, therefore, as the boats had been hoisted up and stowed, they sailed away to the north-eastward, with a light air off the land, in order to gain an offing before the ice should again set in shore. The Hecla was at length worked out of Prince Regent's Inlet, and arrived safely at Melville Harbour, where the necessary repairs were effected for enabling her to cross the Atlantic.
Her crew were received on the Hecla, which, after such an accident as this, was of course obliged to return to England. Parry's tempered spirit was not broken even by this last disaster. If the Arctic Ocean could not be reached from Baffin's Bay, were there not other routes still to be attempted?
Without one gleam of humor, he was of a temper hot as that of any Hecla, and like his fellow volcano, being often in a state of eruption, he offered many reasons for being admired and none for being loved. This should be a key to the man.
Anjou and Wrangell The "polynia" John Ross's first expedition Baffin's Bay closed Edward Parry's discoveries on his first voyage The survey of Hudson's Bay, and the discovery of Fury and Hecla Straits Parry's third voyage Fourth voyage On the ice in sledges in the open sea Franklin's first trip Incredible sufferings of the explorers Second expedition John Ross Four winters amongst the ice Dease and Simpson's expedition.
He knew they were made by dogs, for he had often heard the old hound Hecla at the farmhouse running rabbits in the near-by swamp. But here, there were half-a-dozen hounds instead of one, and their baying was fairly clamorous. Finally, the pack entered the woods not forty rods away, and Black Bruin began to get uneasy.
To the astonishment of all, she tipped the beam at three hundred pounds, which is a few pounds short of the record for the largest she-bear ever weighed. Two of the neighbors helped remove the fine skin and received some bear-steak in return for their labor. Late in the afternoon, the now famous hunter again shouldered his gun and set off for the woods, followed by old Hecla.
Under such circumstances, hopeless as for the time every seaman will admit them to have been, Captain Hoppner judiciously determined to return for the present, as directed by my telegraphic communication; but being anxious to keep the ship free from water as long as possible, he left an officer and a small party of men to continue working at the pumps so long as a communication could be kept up between the Hecla and the shore.
A large party of hands from the Hecla being sent round to the Fury towards high water, she came off the ground with very little strain, so that, upon the whole, considering the situation in which the ships were lying, we thought ourselves fortunate in having incurred no very serious injury.
We had by this time succeeded in purchasing all the oil brought by the first canoes; and as the old fellow, who was commanding officer of the oomiak, obstinately persisted in his refusal to sell his, I ordered him away, when he immediately rowed to the Hecla, and, as I was afterward informed by Captain Lyon, sold his oil for less than he might have obtained at first.
After wintering in Prince Regent's Bay, the ships sailed southwardly, and, in consequence of storms and icebergs, it became necessary to abandon the Fury, and with her crew on board the Hecla, Captain Parry returned to England in October 1825. The Admiralty sent Parry, in the Hecla, in 1827, to reach, if possible, the North Pole.
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