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interesting information. Some of it stirred my heart with 

 sadness, intermingled with rage, for it was a confession 

 that they, with their companions, did secretly and hastily 

 abandon Crozier and his party to suffer and die for need 

 of fresh provisions, when in truth it was in their power to 

 save every man alive. The next trace of Crozier and his 

 party is to be found .in the skeleton which McClintock 

 discovered a little below, to the southward and eastward 

 of Cape Herschel. This was never found by the natives. 

 The next trace is a camping-place on the sea-shore of King 

 William's Land, about three miles eastward of Pfeiffer 

 River, where two men died and received Christian burial. 

 At this place fish-bones were found by the natives, which 

 showed that Crozier and his party had caught, while there, 

 a species of fish excellent for food, with which the sea 

 there abounds. The next trace of this party occurs some 

 five or six miles eastward, on a long, low point of King 

 William's Laud, where one man died and was buried. 

 Then about south-south-east, two and a half miles farther, 

 the next trace occurs on Todd's Inlet, west of Point Rich- 

 ardson, on some low land that is an island or a part of the 

 main laud, as the tide may be. Here the awning-covered 

 boat and the remains of about thirty or thirty-five of Cro- 

 zier's party were found. . . . 



"In the spring of 1849 a large tent was found by some 

 of the natives whom I saw, the floor of which was com- 

 pletely covered with the remains of white men. Close by 

 were two graves. This tent was a little way inland from 

 the head of Terror Bay. 



" In the spring of 1861, when the snow was nearly all 

 gone, an Esquimaux party, conducted by a native well 

 known throughout Northern regions, found two boats, with 

 many skeletons in and about them. One of these boats 

 had been previously discovered by McClintock ; the other 

 was lying from one-quarter to one-half mile distant, and 

 must have been completely entombed in the siiow at the 



