Leaving Spitzbergen on June 23 with twenty-eight men, he pushed northward.

But the summer sun had broken up the ice floes, and the party repeatedly found it necessary to take the runners off their boats in order to ferry across the stretches of open water.

After thirty days' incessant toil Parry had reached 82 deg.

45', about 150 miles north of his base and 435 geographical miles from the Pole.

Here he found that, while his party rested, the drift of the ice was carrying him daily back, almost as much as they were able to make in the day's work.