THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 749 



" 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 make a summer search over that 

 island, which, from information I had gained from the natives, I 

 had reason to suppose would be rewarded by the discovery of 

 the whole of the manuscript records that had been accumulated 

 in that great expedition, and had been deposited in a vault a little 

 way inland or eastward of Cape Victory. It is quite probable 

 that, had we remained there, as I wished, no one of us would 

 ever have got out of the country alive. How could we expect, 

 if we got into straitened circumstances, that we would receive 

 better treatment from the Eskimos of that country than the 105 

 souls who were under the command of the heroic Crozier some 

 time after landing on King William's Land? Could land my 

 party with reasonable safety have remained to make a summer 

 search on King William's Land, it is not only probable that we 

 should have recovered the logs and journals of Sir John Frank- 

 lin's Expedition, but have gathered up and entombed the remains 

 of nearly one hundred of his companions ; for they lie about the 

 places where the three boats have been found, and at the large 

 camping-place at the head of Terror Bay, and the three other 



