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from Mr. Anderson’s journal, and from their own accounts it would 
appear that they left that island in the little portable boat, but what 
other island they reached is not known, and on account of our imperfect 
knowledge of the geography of the district it is impossible even to 
make a rational conjecture From the high point said to have been 
reached it is not impossible that Paulet may have seen the boat which 
had been taken to Starvation Cove, west of Point Richardson, where so 
many of the party died, or that the ship which finally sank at Oot-loo-lik 
first drifted into Simpson Strait to a point where it would be within 
range of vision, and then drifted back again westward to where it was 
unintentionally wrecked by the Eskimos. 
In any event the story is interesting, not only as adding something 
to the knowledge of what became of Franklin’s ships, but also as fur- 
nishing some slight insight into difficulties to be overcome by travellers 
who venture into remote parts of northern Canada. 
