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spiace of several miles in the vicinity of Beeehey island and Cape 

 Riley, and consisted of empty tin cans, the embankment of a 

 house, with carpenter's and armorer's working places, and finallv 

 the graves of three men who belonged to the Erebus and Terror, 

 which bore date of the winter 1845-6. Other expeditions visited 

 the same grounds and explored 675 miles of hitherto undiscov- 

 ered coast, but without finding any further traces, nor were any 



SIR EDWARD BELCHER'S FLEET FROZEN UP IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS. 



documents found giving indications of the condition or intention 

 of the missing men. Sir John Ross came to the conclusion that 

 the Franklin party had been murdered in Wostenholm Sound by 

 Esquimaux. This opinion was supported by Capt. McClure, 

 -who, in August, 1850, discovered a flat brass button in the eat 

 of an Esquimau chief, near the mouth of the Mackenzie river. 

 This chief admitted that it had been taken from the ear of i\ 

 white man who had been killed, but he could not tell the plac* 

 where the murder was committed. 



