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away up the east side of Boothia to Ross's farthest 

 south, thus completing that coast-line. Back he went 

 to Fort Hope after a trip of nearly six hundred miles, 

 to start again on the 12th of May up the west coast of 

 the Melville Peninsula to Cape Ellice, which Parry had 

 sighted from the strait on that side. And he was back 

 once more at Fort Hope on the 9th of June. Thus 

 the survey of the northern coast was complete with 

 the exception of the gap between the Boothia isthmus, 

 on the west side, and Castor and Pollux River of Dease 

 and Simpson, which Rae in another famous effort from 

 Repulse Bay was to link up later on. 



When Rae reached Lord Mayor's Bay on the east 

 coast of Boothia, Franklin, with the Erebus and 

 Terror, was off its west coast in the same latitude. 

 This was the reappearance of the Terror in the north. 

 After Back's voyage she had been repaired to sail with 

 the Erebus., under Sir James Clark Ross, when he dis- 

 covered the South Magnetic Pole ; and on their return 

 the barques had been thoroughly overhauled and fitted 

 with auxiliary screws, the first time that the screw 

 propeller was used in Arctic work. Franklin was in the 

 Erebus, the Terror being commanded by Francis R. M. 

 Crozier as she had been in the Antarctic voyage. 

 Crozier was one of Parry's men, he having been in the 

 Fury in 1821 and in the Hecla on her two subsequent 

 expeditions. 



The ships left England on the 19th of May, 1845, 

 and were last seen and spoken with on the 26th of 

 July in Melville Bay on their way to Lancaster Sound. 

 According to information gained during the long series 

 of searches, they passed through the sound and went 



