At Littleton Island, which was reached August 3, Captain Young was more successful, and a record written July 28, 1875, and left there by Captain Nares, gave full information of the British expedition up to that date. As it was evident that no sledging party had touched at that point in the spring, Captain Young’s mission was over, and he turned his attention to the main object of his voyage, that of attempting the Northwest Passage _via_ Peel Strait, previous to which, however, he made an examination of the bays and inlets between Littleton Island and Cape Alexander. Touching at Cape Isabella, Lieutenants Arbuthnot and Becker landed and found a second communication from Captain Nares, left there July 29, 1875. Letters for the _Alert_ and _Discovery_ and a record of the _Pandora’s_ visit were deposited at this point. A second attempt to reach Cape Isabella for the purpose of a more thorough examination of a cask, described by the first landing party, and supposed by Captain Young to contain letters or despatches, resulted in the _Pandora’s_ spending three weeks in a struggle with the ice for an approach. When Cape Isabella was finally reached, after days of delay and disappointment, the cask which had caused so much anxiety and interest was found to be empty. So much time had been lost in the disappointing effort to reach Cape Isabella, that the season was far advanced, and the _Pandora_ found herself in a most critical position in the ice-pack. To proceed northward had become out of the question by the 27th of August, and furious storms literally drove the ship out of Smith Strait to the southward. Captain Young’s personal disappointment at the turn of affairs was only surpassed by the disappointment of the crew, who, after the buffeting and danger of their recent experience, showed an eagerness to risk passing a winter in some snug harbour. The pack gradually receded as the _Pandora_ made her way toward Hakluyt Island, and the way was clear for an immediate return to England. The only important incident of the return voyage was the meeting with the _Alert_ and _Discovery_ in latitude 54° 38´ N., longitude 44° 30´ W. The gallant little _Pandora_, continuing in her course, made Portsmouth harbour on the 3d of November, 1876. [Sidenote: _SCHWATKA’S SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN RECORDS_] Following in chronological order the interesting voyages of the _Pandora_, but of a totally different character was the remarkable land journey of over two thousand eight hundred nineteen geographical miles by Lieutenant Schwatka, U. S. A., with W. H. Gilder, in the years of 1878-1879, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the Franklin records, should they still exist on King William Land, or in the vicinity of the route taken by the survivors of the _Erebus_ and _Terror_.