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also and left in the cache a brief account of our journey 

 up to that time, and of the course we intended to pursue. 

 Not far to the westward the Franklin party, seventy- 

 five years before, had raised a monument to their memory 

 in the name of Fort Enterprise, and though I had neither 

 time nor tools, not even the wish, to raise a fool's sign- 

 board in warning to others, I thought it as well to leave 

 some remarks at the threshold of that great wilderness, 

 where those that enter may leave hope behind, but will 

 stand a better chance- of getting out if they take it along 

 with them. 



