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continued by McClure and Collinson who sent Lieutenant 

 Barnard up the Yukon to Nulato in search of information, 

 while Bedford Pirn explored between Norton and Kot- 



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POLAR EXPLORER AND RUSSIAN GOVERNOR. 



Admiral Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangell, reformer and administrator of the Rus- 

 sian American colonies, iteg-iStf. Born December 29, 1794. Died May 25, 1870. 



zebue Sounds and Grantley Harbor. Barnard perished 

 in an attack on Nulato by the Koyukun Indians. During 

 the next four years Arctic exploration and the search for 

 Franklin were carried on by the officers above mentioned, 

 and by Kellett, Maguire, and Trollope. 



In 1854 the Ringgold and Rodgers exploring expedition 

 made valuable surveys in the Aleutian Islands and the 

 vicinity of Bering Strait. In 1860-1861 Robert Kenni- 

 cott, of the Smithsonian Institution, coming from Hudson 

 Bay by way of Fort Yukon, descended the Yukon to the 



