SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN. 



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-watch when his sole companion had sunk beside him 

 into his eternal sleep ! 



Neither by Hobson nor M'Clintock had any trace been 

 found of the missing vessels, and at last the latter reached 

 the cairn where the record above referredto had been 



ARCTIC BIRDS. 



discovered by his lieutenant. Around it were found an 

 immense variety of relics stores, pick-axes, shovels, 

 compasses, medicine-chest, &c., and a heap of clothing 

 four feet high but not one scrap of writing. 



From this point the coast was carefully explored to the 



