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Shipwreck

at Cape Flora

NORTHERN LIGHTS SERIES

Copublished with the Arctic Institute of North America

issn 1701-0004 (print) issn 1925-2943 (online)

This series takes up the geographical region of the North (circumpolar regions within the zone of discontinuous permafrost) and publishes works from all areas of northern scholarship, including natural sciences, social sciences, earth sciences, and the humanities.

No. 1 Nunavik: Inuit-Controlled Education in Arctic Quebec Ann Vick-Westgate Copublished with the Katutjiniq Regional Development Council

No. 2 Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships through Time in Northern Indigenous Communities Edited by Lisa Frink, Rita S. Shepard, and Gregory A. Reinhardt Copublished with University Press of Colorado

No. 3 New Owners in their Own Land: Minerals and Inuit Land Claims Robert McPherson

No. 4 War North of 80: The Last German Arctic Weather Station of World War II Wilhelm Dege, translated and edited by William Barr Copublished with University Press of Colorado

No. 5 Writing Geographical Exploration: Thomas James and the Northwest Passage 163133 Wayne K.D. Davies

No. 6 As Long as This Land Shall Last: A History of Treaty 8 and Treaty 11, 18701939 Ren Fumoleau

No. 7 Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North Edited by Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau, and Alan Diduck

No. 8 Alliance and Conflict: The World System of the Inupiaq Eskimos Ernest S. Burch Copublished with the University of Nebraska Press

No. 9 Tanana and Chandalar: The Alaska Field Journals of Robert A. McKennan Edited by Craig Mishler and William E. Simeone Copublished with University of Alaska Press

No. 10 Resurrecting Dr. Moss: The Life and Letters of a Royal Navy Surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss, MD, RN, 18371880 Paul C. Appleton, edited by William Barr

No. 11 Lands that Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland Spencer Apollonio

No. 12 Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic Karim-Aly S. Kassam

No. 13 Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor: The Biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 19051991 A.M. Ermolaev and V.D. Dibner, translated and edited by William Barr

No. 14 The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 19011977 Wendy Dathan

No. 15 The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World Edited by Barry Scott Zellen

No. 16 Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, Englands Forgotten Arctic Explorer P.J. Capelotti

The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith,

Englands Forgotten Arctic Explorer

Shipwreck

at Cape Flora

P.J. Capelotti

Northern Lights Series

ISSN 1701-0004 (Print) ISSN 1925-2943 (Online)

2013 P.J. Capelotti

University of Calgary Press

2500 University Drive NW

Calgary, Alberta

Canada T2N 1N4

www.uofcpress.com

This book is available as an ebook which is licensed under a Creative Commons license. The publisher should be contacted for any commercial use which falls outside the terms of that license.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Capelotti, P. J. (Peter Joseph), 1960- Shipwreck at Cape Flora [electronic resource] : the expeditions ofBenjamin Leigh Smith, Englands forgotten Arctic explorer / P.J. Capelotti.

(Northern lights series, 1925-2943 ; 16) Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic monograph.Issued also in print format. Co-published by: Arctic Institute of North America. ISBN 978-1-55238-712-2 (PDF).ISBN 978-1-55238-713-9 (PDF).ISBN 978-1-55238-714-6 (HTML)

1. Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 1828-1913. 2. ExplorersGreat Britain Biography. 3. Arctic regionsDiscovery and explorationBritishHistory 19th century. I. Arctic Institute of North America II. Title. III. Series: Northern lights series (Online) ; 16

G875.S65C36 2013 910.92 C2013-900288-X

The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Multimedia Development Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

Cover design, page design, and typesetting by Melina Cusano

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To the memory of Harry Red Caughron (19222010) of Woodberry Forest, Virginia, a gentle giant of a man and every bit the equal of the Appalachian mountains he introduced me to, this volume is inscribed with love, affection, and remembrance.

On Loft Mountain, Virginia, July 1976

Contents

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List of figures

Frontispiece: The exploring world of Benjamin Leigh Smith.

Benjamin Leigh Smith at the end of his life; oil painting by Reginald Eves, ca. 1911 (courtesy Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

Benjamin Leigh Smith at the time of the Eira expedition (courtesy Hancox Archive).

Racehorse and Carcass in the ice north of Svalbard, 1773 (from Phipps 1774).

Parrys boats stopped for the night, somewhere north of Svalbard, 1827 (from Parry 1828).

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