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ships that brought accurate information of the missing 

 expedition, with the sum of one hundred guineas or 

 more according to circumstances. Lady Franklin, also, 

 about the same time offered rewards of two thousand 

 and three thousand pounds, to be distributed among the 

 owner, officers, and crew, discovering and affording 

 relief to her husband, or making extraordinary exertions 

 for the above object, and, if required, bringing Sir John 

 Franklin and his party to England. 



On the 23d of March, 1849, the British government 

 offered a reward of twenty thousand pounds "to such 

 private ship, or by distribution among such private 

 ships, or to any exploring party or parties, of any coun- 

 try, as might, in the judgment of the Board of Admiralty, 

 have rendered efficient assistance to Sir John Franklin, 

 his ships, or their crews, and might have contributed 

 directly to extricate them from the ice.' 3 This, also, 

 was meant mainly for the whalers, but was not pro- 

 inulged till most of them had sailed, and had no adapta- 

 tion to compensate owners and masters and crews pro- 

 portionately to their losses on the fishery, and, there- 

 fore, did not produce any effect. 



In the spring of 1849 Mr. Parker, master of the 

 whaling-ship Truelove, carried out from Lady Franklin 

 a supply of provisions and coals for the possible use of 

 the missing expedition, and landed them on the con- 

 spicuous promontory of Cape Hay, on the south side of 

 Lancaster Sound. 



In 1849 Dr. Goodsir, brother of the assistant surgeon 

 of the Erebus, embarked in the whaling-ship Advice, of 

 Dundee, on her annual trip to Baffin's Bay, in the hope 

 that he might get early intelligence of the missing expe- 

 dition. Mr. William Penny, the master of the Advice, 

 was well known for enterprise and energy, and had 

 made strenuous efforts, in 1834, to assist Sir John Ross 



