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I base this view chiefly on the interesting fact, that Mc 

 Chntock's Franklin-Expedition obtained information regarding 

 Kridiarssuark and his little tribe, whilst these were on their way 

 from their home-conntry to the coasts of Smith Sound. After 

 a fleeting connection with the Polar Eskimos at Cape York on 

 June 26^1^ 1858, Mc Clintock on his Franklin Search Expedition 

 with the "Fox" sailed westwards and later southwards from 

 Jones Sound along the east coast of North Devon ; here , at 

 Cape Horsburgh, the most easterly point of North Devon or 

 more correctly of Philpots [sland, he met Kridiarssuark on July 

 nth |85g_ 



Mc Clintock ^ is himself more brief in his report of this 

 meeting than his interpreter, the above-mentioned Dane Carl 

 Petersen^', for which reason I keep mostly to the account of 

 the latter, which agrees in all points with Mc Clintock's. 

 Whilst the "Fox" was passing a good distance off the edge 

 of the fixed ice, Mc Clintock heard some voices calling from 

 the ice through the still weather, and shortly after caught 

 sight of some figures. After anchoring to the fixed ice, 3 men, 

 3 women and 2 children came on board, whilst 4 persons re- 

 mained behind on the shore. Carl Petersen then narrates that 

 "they were all clothed in reindeer skin and quite resembled 

 our Greenlanders, and their language had also a considerable 

 resemblance to that of the latter Eskimos". Their coat was 

 however somewhat longer than the Polar Eskimos'; the faces 

 of the women were tattooed. They asked Mc. Clintock to wait, 

 as their sledges were on the way with narwhal and walrus 

 teeth, which they wanted to sell. They had come from Ponds 

 Inlet, where they had often been on board the English whaling- 

 vessels. Two years previously they had come over Lancaster 



' Mc Clintock: A Narrative of the Discovery of the fate of Sir John 



Franklin. London 1SÔ7, pp. 143—144. 

 '-' Carl Petersen: Den sidste Franklin -Expedition. København I860, 



pp. 92—93. 



