398 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vou. VIII. 
September Great Slave Lake was reached at old Fort Reliance, where 
Sir George Black spent the winters of 1833 and 1834, and from which © 
in 1900 my brother, J. W. Tyrrell, started on his way to the Barren 
Lands to connect with the survey of the Dubawnt River which we had 
made together in 1893. 
Messrs. Anderson and Stewart found no records or remains of any 
of the missing men of the Franklin expedition, and little or nothing 
was added by them to the knowledge that had previously been 
obtained by Dr. Rae. 
Very little else was known of the history of this expedition, which 
is chiefly noted because it was the last party up to the present time to 
descend the Great Fish River to its’m outh, until in the autumn of 1890 
while travelling up the east shore of Lake Winnipeg, a little old French- 
Canadian named Boucher came to my camp. He said that he had been 
cook on the Anderson and Stewart expedition down the Great Fish 
River, and that he had an interesting story to tell if I would but listen 
to him. 
He told of hardships and dangers that he and the other men 
encountered, or thought they did, but chiefly of the agony they 
suffered through fear that they would never again be brought back to 
their homes. However the most interesting part of his story was the - 
statement that three men who were sent northward beyond Montreal 
Island (or Maconochie Island) to look for any signs of Sir John 
Franklin or his party saw one of the ships far out in the ice, but 
returned and reported that they had seen nothing, fearing that if they 
reported a ship in sight, their masters would take them to it, and they 
would not be able to get back to Fort Resolution that fall, and would 
all perish of starvation and exposure. This was doubtless the party 
sent on to Maconochie Island in the canvas boat on the 8th of August. 
The names of the three men given by him were Thomas Mustagan, 
Edward Kipling and Paulette Papanakies. 
Thomas Mustagan was well known to me. He was the chief of 
the band of Ojibway Indians which had its headquarters at Norway 
House, near the north end of Lake Winnipeg, and though rather old at 
the time was a splendid type of physical manhood, besides having a 
good reputation as an honest, industrious man. 
The others were not personally known to me, but after some 
enquiry Papanakies, who also was an Ojibway Indian, was found to be 
