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in 1847, and next year found by Lieutenant Irving, 

 added to, and removed to the new cairn on the site of 

 Sir James Ross's pillar. 



Brief as it was, it contained all the authentic informa- 

 tion regarding Franklin's voyage up to the time the ships 

 were abandoned. Resuming the return journey along 

 the edge of the strait where the meeting of the Pacific 

 and Atlantic tides keeps the ice drifting down from the 

 north-west almost constantly packed, M'Clintock reached 

 a boat with two skeletons and other relics already visited 

 by Hobson, who had found other cairns and many 

 relics, and, in Back Bay, another record by Gore, also 

 deposited in 1847, but giving no additional news. 



Hobson was dragged alongside the Fox, on the 14th 

 of June, so ill with scurvy that he was unable to walk or 

 even stand without assistance. M'Clintock arrived five 

 days later ; and on the 27th Allen Young returned 

 after an exploration of three hundred and eighty miles 

 of coast-line, which, added to that discovered by 

 M'Clintock and Hobson, gave a total of eight hundred 

 geographical miles of new coast as the work of the 

 expedition, besides what it had done in clearing up the 

 Franklin mystery. 



In 1869 Captain C. F. Hall collected other relics 

 and sufficient information to account for seventy-nine 

 men out of the hundred and five who left the ships. 

 Ten years after that, Schwatka, in his long, careful 

 search of King William Land, discovered the grave of 

 Lieutenant Irving, in which were some fragments of his 

 instruments and the prize medal he won at the Royal 

 Naval College. Near by were many traces indicating 

 that it was the site of the first encampment of the 



