8 . OFFICEKS OF THE EXPEDITION. Chap, I. 



Englishmen, as of old, to be clierished, I trust, as 

 the most valuable of our national characteristics 

 — as that which has so largely contributed to 

 make England what she is. 



My second in command was Lieutenant W. R. 

 Hobson, R.N., an oflScer already distinguished 

 in Arctic service. Captain Allen Young joined 

 me as sailing-master, contributing not only his 

 valuable services but largely of his private funds 

 to the expedition. This gentleman had pre- 

 viously commanded some of our very finest mer- 

 chant ships, the latest being the steam-transport 

 * Adelaide' of 2500 tons: he had but recently 

 returned, in ill-health, from the Black Sea, 

 where he was most actively employed during 

 the greater part of the Crimean campaign. 

 Nothing that I could say would add to the 

 merit of such singularly generous and disin- 

 terested conduct. David Walker, M.D., volun- 

 teered for the post of surgeon and naturalist ; 

 he also undertook the photographic department ; 

 and just before sailing, Carl Petersen, now so 

 well known to Arctic readers as the Esquimaux 

 interpreter in the expeditions of Captain Penny 

 and Dr. Kane, came to join me from Copen- 

 hagen, although landed there from Greenland 

 only six days previously, after an absence of a 

 year from his family : we were indebted to Sir 



