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HEARNE, Samuel, English explorer, born in London in 1745; died in 1792. In early life he served as a midshipman under Hood, and after the seven years' war he entered the employment of the Hudson bay company, and made several journeys in northern British America in quest of a northwest passage and of mines of the precious metals. He started on an expedition to the north on 15 July, 1771, reached the Coppermine river after a journey of nearly 1,300 miles on foot, and descended it to the Arctic ocean. He returned to the Prince of Wales's fort on 30 June, 1772, after nearly perishing from starvation. He established Cumberland factory in 1774, was made governor of the Prince of Wales's Fort in 1775, and was made prisoner by La Perouse when the fort was captured in 1782. He returned to England in 1787. He published "Journey from the Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean; undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Nines, a Northwest Passage, etc." (London, 1795).
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