416 Besults of this Journey tJ"***. i869. 



Two Eskimo men, who were of the native party, gave me much sad but deeply 

 interesting, information. Some of it stiiTed my heart with sadness, intermin- 

 gled with rage, for it was a confession that they, with their companions, did 

 secret!}" and hastily abandon Crozier and his party to suffer and die for need 

 of fresh proAisions, when in truth it was in the power of the natives to save 

 every man alive. 



The next trace of Crozier and his party is to be found in the skeleton which 

 ]\[cClintock discovered a little below, to the southward and eastward of Cape 

 Herschel; this was never found by the natives. The next trace is a cami^ing- 

 place on the sea-shore of King William's Land, about three miles eastward of 

 Pfeffer Eiver, where two men died and received Christian (?) burial. At this 

 place fish-bones were found by the natives, which showed them that Crozier and 

 his party had caught while there a species of fish excellent for food, with which 

 the sea there abounds. The next trace of this party occurs about five or six 

 miles eastward, on a long, low point of King William's Land, where one man 

 died and was buried. Then, about south-southeast two and a half miles further, 

 the next trace occurs on Todd's Islet, where the remains of five men lie. The 

 next certain trace of this party is on the west side of the islet, west of Point 

 Richardson, on some low land that is an island or part of the main land, as the 

 tide may be. Here the awning-covered boat and the remains of about thirty or 

 thirty-five of Crozier's party were found by the native Poo-yet-ta, of whom Sir 

 John Ross has given a description in the account of his voyage in the Victory in 

 1829-'34. 



In the spring of 1849, a large tent was found by the natives whom I 

 saw, the floor of which was completely covered with the remains of white men. 

 Close by were two graves. This tent was a little way inland from the head of 

 Terror Bay. In the spring of 1861, when the snow was nearly all gone, an Eskimo 

 party, conducted by a native well known throughout the northern regions, found 

 two boats, with many skeletons in and about them. One of these boats had been 

 previously found by McClintock ; the other was found lying from a quarter to a 

 half mile distant, and must have been completely entombed in snow at the time 

 McClintock's parties were there, or they most assuredly would have seen it. In 

 and about this boat, beside the skeletons alluded to, were found many relics, most 

 of them similar in character to those McClintock has enumerated as having been 

 found in the boat he discovered. 



I tried hard to accomplish far more than I did, but not one of the company 

 would on any account whatever consent to remain with me in that country and 



