image (1824)
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anonyomous
Parry's account of his second Artic voyage in search of the Northwest Passage was, like most 19th-Century travel and exploration narratives, illustrated. Above is part of an image entitled "Cutting Into Winter Island, October 1821." (One of the sailors in the foreground is dragging a large saw, of the sort used to cut channels through the ice, or to cut "docks" or clear spaces when the pressure of the ice threatened the hull of the ship.) In the middle ground are the three dogs which were brought along by members of the expedition. One, on the left, was a spaniel, here shown chasing the black greyhound which belonged to Commander Parry. The third dog, crouching on the snow watching the other two dogs, was the Newfoundland, and if this illustration is accurate, that Newf was what would later become known as a Landseer.