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 not wish to pass Cape Prince of Wales in bad weather. To the outer harbour, which for convenience and security surpasses any other near this celebrated promontory, Captain Beechey gave the name of Port Clarence, in honor of our present most gracious monarch, then Lord High Admiral, and by whom he had recently been promoted. The inner haven, which is well adapted to the purposes of repair, and sufficiently deep to receive a frigate, he named Grantley Harbour, in compliment to his brother-in-law, the present Lord Grantley.

On her return from Port Clarence to Chamisso Island, the Blossom experienced very bad weather, lost one of her best seamen overboard, and narrowly escaped being wrecked upon a sand near Hotham Inlet. In the mean time, her decked boat, then under the command of Lieutenant Belcher, had proceeded along the coast to the north-eastward of Icy Cape, until stopped by the ice in 70° 41', when she returned to Kotzebue Sound, and there foundered, with three of her crew, in a gale which suddenly arose while that officer and Mr. James Wolfe, admiralty-mate, were employed in erecting an observatory upon a peninsula near the anchorage. On the 29th of September, a party of Esquimaux, from Escholtz Bay, made an attack upon some men employed in watering at Chamisso Island, and wounded with their arrows two sailors and four marines. Speaking of this occurrence Captain Beechey says:

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