The information which we gathered respecting the “North Star,” I will merely glance at. After leaving Port Leopold, where she had had great difficulty in getting the boat off which she had sent on shore there, having to employ three more boats to get her through the ice, she went towards Port Bowen, which was found to be entirely blocked with ice. From Port Bowen she stretched across out of the inlet, and spoke Captain Penny, and afterwards Sir John Ross. From these parties they had learned all the great news which made this year memorable as regarded the Arctic seas. They next proceeded to Navy Board Inlet, and there, on the main land, behind Wollaston Island, they landed their extra provisions and fuel. A gale coming on obliged them to loose an anchor and cable, and finally they ran out, mid channel, through Lancaster Sound, where we first saw them. During their winter sojourn they had lost four men from causes not attributable to the climate, and a native who had gone on board with his feet frost-bitten also died. They had been put on two-thirds allowance of provisions, and had found a great deal of the preserved meats furnished them from England very indifferent.

The result of this news was in many respects gratifying as regarded our little vessel. There never was perhaps a clearer proof of the great advantage that a small vessel like ours has, when on such a service as that in which the “North Star” was employed, minus the carrying provisions.