CONTENTS. xxi 



CHAPTER XL 



Proceed westward in a boat — Unpromising state of the western sea — 

 Struggles in Bellot Strait — Falcons, good arctic fare — The re- 

 sources of Boothia Felix — Future sledge travelling — Heavy gales 

 — Hobson's party start — Winter quarters — Bellot Strait — Ad- 

 vanced depot established — Observatories — Intense cold — Autumn 

 travellers — Ravens — Narrow escape — Wolves .. Page 165 



CHAPTER XII. 



Death of our engineer — Scarcity of game — The cold unusually trying 

 — Jolly, under adverse circumstances — Petersen's information — 

 Return of the sun of 1859 — Early spring sledge parties — Unusual 

 severity of the winter — Severe hardships of early sledging — The 

 western shores of Boothia — Meet the Esquimaux — Intelligence of 

 Franldin's ships — Return to the 'Fox' — Allen Young returns 185 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Dr. Walker's sledge journey — Snow-blindness attacks Young's party 

 — Departure of all sledge-parties — Equipment of sledge-parties — 

 Meet the same party of natives — Intelligence of the second ship — 

 My depot robbed — Part company from Hobson — Matty Island — 

 Deserted snow-huts — Native sledges — Land on King William's 

 Land . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • • . . 210 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Meet Esquimaux — News of Franklin's people — Frighten a solitary 

 party — Reach the Great Fish River — On Montreal Island — Total 

 absence of all relics — Dog-driving — Examine Ogle Peninsula — 

 Discover a skeleton — Vagueness of Esquimaux information — Cape 

 Herschel — Cairn 22 6 



CHAPTER XV. 



The cairn found empty — Discover Hobson's letter — Discovery of 

 Crozier's record — The deserted boat — Articles discovered about 

 the boat — The skeletons and relics — The boat belonged to the 

 ' Erebus ' — Conjectures . . . . . . . . . . • • 242 



