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of this coast, were not mainly concerned, as we were, with adding 

 to geographic and other knowledge. They did great things in that 

 field incidentally, but only incidentally, for their main purpose 

 was humanitarian. They were searching for the Erebus and 

 Terror and the 119 lost men of Sir John Franklin's company. 

 We know now that Franklin's men were all dead long before Mc- 

 Clintock came to Prince Patrick Island in what was for the time 

 a vain search. It was McClintock, however, who on a later expe- 

 dition finally brought to light, a long way to the south and east of 

 this his farthest north, the main events of the Franklin tragedy. 

 Many of its details are still unknown. 



Naturally as we approached the cape named after McClin- 

 tock and the turning point of his search for the lost explorers, 

 we began to talk and think more about the heroic adventures and 

 accomplishments of that time, the traditions of which gave inter- 

 est to every point of land as it came in view. And we tried to 

 identify each with some landmark shown and named on Mc- 

 Clintock's map. 



