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the discovery of the regions to and about the Pole, and the other to obtain the 

 records of Sir Johri's Expedition, and to obtain otlicr inforuiation tliaii wliut [ 

 already i^ossess relating to it. Had I lailed in getting my Country intcn^stcd in 

 fitting out an Expedition for making Polar discoveries, as I told you I would have 

 most eertainly [D. V.) been ready for the King Wm''s Land Voyage, As the matter 

 now stands, I have much reason to hope that the North Polar Expedition I havf, 

 the honor to command, will accomplish its object and be back to the States in 30 

 months from the time of leaving say from 1st of June next.* 



^The search for the Records has not boon wliolly abandoned oven at this late date. The 

 cruises of the Pandora (now the Jeanette, of the Polar Expedition of 1879, under command of 

 Lieutenant De Long, U. S. N.) made by Capt. Allen Young in 1875 and 1876 had this search for 

 one of their objects. 



June 19, 1878, an expedition nnder Lieutenant Sch-watka, U. S. A., was sent out from New 

 York by Morison & Brown for the same object. This expedition proposed to remain on the field 

 of search later in the summer following than Hall found himself able to do in 1^09. Taking with 

 them Eskimo Joe as guide and interpreter, and a force of armed white men, they may possibly 

 secure something of value of those Records, the recovery of which has been so long desired by 

 England and by the world. Captain Barry, who took out Lieutenant Schwatka in Ihe Eotheu, 

 had received on a previous voyage information from the Neitchille natives Avhich prompted the 

 present expedition. He had brought home with him also a Franklin relic, the history of which is 

 marked under the annexed drawing. Messrs. Morison & Brown presented it to Miss Cracroft, 

 through the U. S. Naval Observatory. 



SPOON BELONGING TO SIR JOHN FRANKLIN BROUGHT FROM REPULSE BAY BY CAPT. BARRY, OF 

 THE WHALER A. HOUGHTON, IN 1877, FORWARDED TO MISS SOPHIA CR^VCUOFT, LONDON 

 THE MENDING DONE BY THE ESQUIMAUX. 



