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round the west coast of King William Land, while 

 Young took the Prince of Wales Land route. 



On the east coast of King William Land M'Clintock 

 met with more Eskimos, from whom he obtained relics 

 and obtained information. Pushing on, he reached 

 Montreal Island on the 15th of May, where the only 

 traces of a boat were some scraps of copper and an 

 iron-hoop bolt. A crossing to the mainland on the 

 18th of May revealed no more ; and next day the 

 return journey began. Six days afterwards, walking 

 along a gravel ridge near the beach on the way to Cape 

 Herschel, M'Clintock found the first skeleton, partly 

 exposed, with a few fragments of clothing appearing 

 through the snow, evidently one of the men who, as 

 the old Eskimo woman said, fell down and died as they 

 walked along. Visiting Simpson's cairn at Cape Hers- 

 chel and meeting with nothing, he went on for about 

 twelve miles, where he caught sight of a small cairn 

 built by Hobson's party at their furthest south, reached 

 six days before, containing a note with the great news 

 that at Point Victory they had found what is now 

 known as the Franklin record. 



This record, which has frequently been printed in a 

 smaller size than the original was one of the navy 

 bottle-papers with the request in six languages that 

 it should be forwarded to the Admiralty. A pale blue 

 paper, twelve and a half inches by eight, it was filled up 

 in the ordinary way, and then added to round the four 

 margins in the handwriting of Lieutenant Gore. Captain 

 Fitz James, and Captain Crozier, and signed by these 

 and C. F. Des Vceux. It had been first deposited four 

 miles away, so it said, " by the late Commander Gore," 



