FRANKLIN'S JOURNEY TO THE POLAR SEA. 



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longitude 96 46' 45" W." On the return journey to the ship they encountered blinding 

 snow-storms, but eventually reached it in safety, after an absence of twenty-eight days. 



RICHARDSOX'S ADVENTURE WITH WHITE WOLVES. 



In 1819 22 Franklin made a most remarkable and perilous land and river 

 journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, which will be only briefly noticed here for obvious 

 reasons. The party consisted of Franklin, Dr. Richardson, Back, Hood, and a sailor 

 named Hepburn, who is very highly commended in the narrative. They left England 



