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CAPT. HOWGATE, U.S.A., having for some years past fruitlessly endeavoured to obtain the comparatively small grant of 50,000 dollars from the American Government, for. the purpose of carrying out his peculiar scheme of Arctic exploration, by forming a colony of active and experienced men, with a few families of Eskimos, at the coal-bed discovered some years ago in Lady Franklin Bay, Smith Sound, lat. 81° N., has determined to equip a private expedition on a smaller scale with this object.
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R., J. The Howgate Arctic Expedition. Nature 21, 11 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021011d0
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