This volume (1867) contains an account of Frobisher's voyages in search of the North-West Passage in the sixteenth century.

Published posthumously in 1889, this journal records the 1850 5 expedition undertaken by naval officer and navigator Sir Richard Collinson (1811 83) to attempt to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition by entering the hypothetical North-West Passage from the 'other side', via Bering Strait. Franklin, the famous Polar explorer, disappeared on an expedition to discover the Passage in 1845, and no fewer than thirty attempts were made between 1847 and 1859 to investigate what had happened to his 129-strong party. Collinson set out in command of HMS Enterprise in 1850, and his ship,...