750 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 





 places that I have already mentioned. In the cove, west side of 



Point Richardson, however, nature herself has opened her bosom 

 and given sepulture to the bones of the immortal heroes who 

 died there. Wherever the Eskimos ^have found the graves of 

 Franklin's companions, they have dug them open and robbed the 

 dead, leaving them exposed to the ravages of wild beasts. On 

 Todd's island the remains of five men were not buried : but, after 

 the savages had robbed them of every article that could be turned 

 to account for their use, their dogs were allowed to finish the 

 disgusting work. 



*' I could have readily gathered great quantities a very great 

 variety of relics of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, for they 

 are now possessed by natives all over the Arctic regions that I 

 visited or heard of from Pond's Bay to Mackenzie River. As it 

 was, I had to be satisfied with taking upon our sledges about 3 25 

 pounds' total weight of relics from natives about King William's 

 Land." 



In addition to th;ese relics, Capt. Hall recovered a skeleton 

 entire, which he brought with him to the United States. The 

 remains were subsequently forwarded to England, where, by the 

 plug of a tooth, they were identified as those of Lieut. Vesconte, 

 of the Erebus. 



THE JEANNETTE EXPEDITION. 



THE loss of the Jeannette, and the long and fatal sufferings of 

 her crew, constitute one of the most painful stories that has ever 

 been told of the mysterious Northern sea. 



Geo. W. DeLong was young when he died on the frozen coast- 

 fields of Siberia, but his short life was made up of stirring inci- 

 dents. Born in New York city in 1844, he received the educa- 

 tional advantages of the Metropolis, but the solicitude of his 

 mother bound him so completely to the fireside that, up to twelve 

 years of age, he had participated in few boyish sports, and was as 

 effeminate as a girl. An accident, by which his ear was badly 

 injured from the blow of a hard snowball, confined him indoors 

 for several months, during which time he read several of Capt. 

 Marry at' a marine novels, and these gave him a longing for the 



