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|Sources=<p>"The Discovery of the Northwest Passage by HMS Investigator" (1856), p. 160</p>
|Sources=<p>"The Discovery of the Northwest Passage by HMS Investigator" (1856), p. 160</p>
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|Comment=<p>British sailors played rounders on the ice in Melville Bay, Aug. 20, 1857. See Lloyd, "The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas"</p>
|Comment=<p>British sailors played rounders on the ice in Melville Bay, Greenland, Aug. 20, 1857. See Lloyd, "The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas"</p>
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The crew of a British ship investigating a northwest passage was trapped in the ice alongside Princess Royal Island in Feb. 1851, and while there the men played Rounders on the ice.

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"The Discovery of the Northwest Passage by HMS Investigator" (1856), p. 160

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British sailors played rounders on the ice in Melville Bay, Greenland, Aug. 20, 1857. See Lloyd, "The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas"

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