550 LAST VOYAGE OF FRANKLIN. 



Capt Young and his party returned, having completed 

 their portion of the search, by which the insularity of 

 Prince of Wales' Land was determined, and the coast 

 line intervening between the extreme points reached by 

 Lieutenants Osborne and Browne, discovered ; also be- 

 tween Bello.t Strait and Sir James Ross's furthest in 

 1849, at Four River Bay. 



Fearing that his provisions might not last out the 

 requisite period, Capt. Young sent back four of his men, 

 and for forty days journeyed on through fogs and gales, 

 with but one man and the dogs, building a snow hut 

 each night. But few men could stand so long a con- 

 tinuance of labor and privation, and its effect upon Capt. 

 Young was painfully evident. 



All were now on board again. The summer proved a 

 warm one ; and on the 9th of August they were able to 

 start on their homeward voyage. By the aid of her 

 stearn power the ship was forced up to Fury Point. 

 There for six days she lay, closely beset, when, a change 

 of wind removing the ice, her voyage was continued, 

 almost without further interruption, to Godhaven, in 

 Disco, where she arrived on the 27th of August. On 

 the 21st of September, 1859, the Fox arrived in Eng- 

 land, having accomplished full} 7 the object of her voy- 

 age, with the loss of only three men. 



Gathering up the fragments of information which 

 have been obtained from time to time by the various 

 searching expeditions, we are now enabled to present, 

 in a connected form, all that is known and probably 

 all that ever will be known- -concerning the last voy- 

 age of Sir John Franklin. 



It will be remembered that the Erebus and Terror, 

 which left England in May, 1845, were last seen on the 

 26th of July, moored to an iceberg, in Baffin's Bay, 



