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them, together with two Indian hunters. Before 

 the end of the month we learnt that they had ob- 

 tained both musk-ox and rein-deer meat, and were 

 drying part of it for summer use. The subsequent 

 proceedings are told in the following official docu- 

 ments, which I quote entire, premising that the 

 names of the men composing his party were — 



Boat's crew. 



Neil M'Leod - Orkney man. 



James Hope - Cree Indian. 



Thomas Hope „ 



Halcro Humphrey - Orkney man. 



Albert One-eye - - - Eskimo. 



Louis Olivier - Canadian. 



Left in charge of Fort Confidence. 

 Baptiste Paul - Canadian. 



Louis Dub rill „ 



" Fort Confidence, Great Bear Lake, 

 (Memorandum.) May 1. 1849. 



"As in the prosecution of the search for traces of the 

 Discovery Ships under command of Sir John Franklin, 

 the continental coast line between the Mackenzie and 

 Coppermine Rivers has been carefully examined, the only 

 part of my instructions not yet complied with, is the ex- 

 amination of the adjoining shores of Wollaston and Vic- 

 toria Lands, which the state of the ice in Dolphin and 

 Union Straits rendered inaccessible last autumn. That 

 these two islands are separated from each other by a strait 

 lying between the 111th and 113th meridians, is rendered 

 almost certain by a consideration of the direction of the 

 flood tide, which, on the west side of these parallels, sets 



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