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Lieutenant Se hwatka's Arctic Journey. 



The gap left in our knowledge of the ill- 

 fated Arctic Expedition of Sir John Frank- 

 lin, by the successive search-parties sent in 

 quest of the explorers, has now been filled, 

 as completely as it seems ever likely to be, by 

 the remarkable achievement of Lieutenant 

 Schwatka and his comrades, who have re- 

 cently returned from their Arctic journey, 

 after an absence of more than two years, 

 Though the expedition was the poorest 

 equipped of any of the similar ones which 

 preceded it, it has accomplished more than 

 any other, and that in the face of what 



would have seemed to less intrepid explorers 

 insurmountable difficulties. The expedition 

 of Sir John Franklin, consisting of the two 

 ships Erebus and Terror, with a total party 

 of one hundred and twenty-eight men, was 

 sent out in the spring of 1845, and was 

 never more seen. The mystery which en- 

 shrouded their fate was first unveiled by 

 Dr. Eae, who, in 1853, found and brought 

 to England a number o-f relics of the miss- 

 ing party, which are now in the British Mu- 

 seum, Dr. Eae's journey was made in the 

 same general direction as that of Lieutenant 

 Schwatka, but not over the same ground. 

 Another expedition was sent out in 1858 

 under the command of Sir Leopold McClin- 

 tock, who succeeded in obtaining the only 

 written record that has been found. This 

 showed that Franklin died on board ship in 

 1847, and the task of leading the way over 

 the trackless Arctic fields, where the whole 

 party perished miserably from cold and hun- 

 ger, devolved upon Captain Crozier, the next 

 in command. Franklin penetrated as far 

 north OS latitude "77, going through Baffin 

 Bay, Barrow Strait, and up Wellington Chan- 

 nel, but was forced to return southward, 

 and in latitude 70 was frozen in by the ice 

 toward the close of 1846. The vessels were 

 abandoned in the spring of 1848, and the 

 party, now consisting of one hundred and 

 five men, betook themselves to the land in 

 the hope of reaching some outpost of the 

 Hudson Bay Company. They reached an 

 island named King William Land, beyond 

 which they never got. The subsequent ex- 

 peditions of Dr. Kane and Captain Hall 

 gleaned some further information, but there 

 was still much to be learned of the way and 

 place in which the party perished, and of 

 what had become of the records which they 

 must have had with them. It was to clear 

 up these points that the Schwatka expedi- 

 tion undertook its perilous and fortunately 

 successful journey, upon information regard- 

 ing the existence of records which seemed 

 reliable. This information was that one 

 Captain Barry, of a whaler, while wintering 

 in Repulse Bay, had been given a spoon by 

 the Esquimaux, which had belonged to the 

 Franklin party, and that this captain had 

 subsequently overheard some natives talk- 

 ing, and learned that this spoon came from 

 a cairn in King William Land where there 



