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Kendall, was engaged in &quot;exploring the coast 

 between the mouths of the Mackenzie and 

 Coppermine Rivers.&quot; 



Captain Ross, in the Victory, now resumed his captain ROSS, 

 attempt. The ship becoming fast in the ice, was 1829 

 finally abandoned, and the crew having spent 

 four winters in the Arctic was saved from star 

 vation by a cache of food left by Parry. They 

 were at last picked up by a whaler in Lancaster 

 Sound. Valuable work was done in surveying the 

 Gulf of Boothia and the shores of King William 

 Island. 



The gaps left in the above surveys of the coast Simpson, 

 of the mainland were completed by the Hudson ?8 &amp;lt; 37-39 Rae 

 Bay Company s expedition under the direction 1345-47 

 of Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson, 

 and that led by Dr. John Rae. 



Two more attempts ysea, Captain Lyon in Lyonand 

 the Griper, and Capt a in Back in the Terror; Back &amp;gt; 1824 - 36 

 preceded the epic and final tragedy of the long 

 and heroic search the Sir John Franklin Ex- sir John 

 pedition. With two ships, the Erebus and Terror, Franklin 1845 

 provisioned for three years, with crews amounting 

 to &quot;one hundred and thirty-four persons, of 

 whom five were sent home from Greenland&quot; the 

 ill-fated expedition sailed away from the shores 

 of England. It was seen for the last time in 

 Lancaster Sound. Thirty-five ships and five 

 overland expeditions searched vainly for tidings; 

 &quot;before M Clint ock discovered undoubted proof 

 of the complete loss of the ships and the death of 

 the entire crews.&quot; In brief, the sad story may 



