AECTIC SEAS. 



CHAPTER III. 



SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN. 



AT Cape Victoria, Hobson and M'Cliritock parted 

 company, and we now follow the steps of the latter. 

 Crossing over the channel which separates Boothia from 

 King William's Island, he passed several deserted 

 villages of the Eskimos, around which numerous chips 

 and shavings of wood from the last expedition were seen, 

 and at last reached a cluster of thirty or forty inhabited 

 huts, where he purchased for a few needles six spoons 

 and forks with the crests or initials of Franklin, C rosier, 

 and others of their companions, and was told that it was 

 five days' journey across the island to the scene of the ' 

 wreck, of which but little now remained. 



The site of the wreck lying exactly in Hobson's track, 

 in which he was himself to return, M'Clintoek contused 



