JOTJENAL OF THE SEAKCH 



FOR 



SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. 



CHAPTEK I. 



Cause of delay in equipment — Fittings of the ' Fox ' — Volunteers 

 for Arctic service — Assistance from public departments — 

 Reflections upon the undertaking — Instructions and departure 

 — Orkneys and Greenland — Fine Arctic scenery — Danish 

 estahlishments in Greenland — Frederickshaab, in Davis' Straits. 



It is now a matter of history how Govern- 

 ment and private expeditions prosecuted with 

 unprecedented zeal and perseverance the search 

 for Sir John FrankHn's ships, between the 

 years 1847-55 ; and that the only ray of 

 information gleaned was that afforded by the 

 inscriptions upon three tombstones at Beechey 

 Island, briefly recording the names and dates 

 of the deaths of those individuals of the lost 

 expedition, who thus early fell in the cause of 

 science and of their country. 



In this manner were we made aware of th& 



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