748 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



may be summed up thus : It was late in July, J848, that Crozier 

 and his party of about forty or forty-five passed down the west 

 coast of King William's Land in the vicinity of Cape Herschel. 

 The party was dragging two sledges on the sea ice, which was 

 nearly in its last stages of dissolution : one a large sledge, laden 

 with an awning-covered boat, and the other a small one, laden 

 with provisions and camp material. Just before Crozier and 

 party arrived at Cape Herschel, they were met by four families 

 of natives, and both parties went into camp near each other. 

 Two Eskimo men, who were of the native party, gave me' much 

 sad but deeply interesting information. Some of it stirred my 

 heart with sadness, intermingled with rage, for it was a 'confes- 

 sion that they, with their companions, did secretly and hastily 

 abandon Crozier and his party to suffer and die for need of fresh 

 provisions, 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 McClintock discovered a little below, to the south- 

 ward and eastward of Cape Herschel ; this was never found by 

 the natives. The next trace is a camping-place on the sea-shore 

 of King William's Land, about three miles eastward of Pfeffer 

 River, 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 east- 

 ward, 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 descrip- 

 tion in the account of his voyage in the Victory in 1829-'34. 



