190 VOYAGE AND DEATH OF FRANKLIN 



ing to get to the southward, as the ice was driving to the northward. We were 

 that night and the following day in coming across, and came into the land on 

 the eastern shore a long way to the northward of the place where we were 

 driven off. We got into the land at what Lieut. Bellot told us was Point 

 Hogarth. 



"In drifting up the straits towards the Polar Sea, we saw an iceberg lying 

 close to the shore, and found it on the ground. We succeeded in getting on it, 

 and remained for six hours. I said to David Hook, 'Don't be afraid ; we must 

 make a boat of a piece of ice.' Accordingly, we got on to a piece passing, and 

 I had a paddle belonging to the India-rubber boat. By this piece of drift-ice 

 we managed to reach the shore, and then proceeded to where the accident hap- 

 pened. Reached it on Friday. Could not find our shipmates, or any provisions. 

 Went on for Cape Bowden, and reached it on Friday night." 



When the Esquimos heard of Bellot's death, they shed tears, and cried 

 "Poor Bellot ! poor Bellot !" Two years before, he had seen an Esquimo drag- 

 ging himself over the ice, with a broken leg. He called the carpenter and gave 

 him directions to make a wooden leg for the poor fellow, and to teach him to 

 walk with it. 



