DEDICATION. 



My dear Lady Fbanklin, 



There is no one to whom I could with so much 

 propriety or willingness dedicate my Journal as to 

 you. For you it was originally written, and to please 

 you it now appears iu print.' 



To our mutual friend, Sheeard Osborn, I am 

 greatly obliged for his kindness in seeing it through 

 the press — a labour I could not have settled down to so 

 soon after my return ; and also for pointing out some 

 omissions and technicalities which wovdd have rendered 

 parts of it unintelligible to an ordinary reader. These 

 kind hints have been but partially attended to, and, as 

 time presses, it appears with the mass of its original 

 imperfections, as when you read it in manuscript. Such 

 as it is, however, it affords me this valued opportunity 

 of assuring you of the real gratification I feel in having 

 been instrumental in accomplishing an object so dear to 

 you. To your devotion and self-sacrifice the world is 

 indebted for the deeply-interesting revelation unfolded 

 by the voyage of the ' Fox.' 



Believe me to be, 



With sincere respect, most faithfully yours, 



F. L. M'CLINTOCK. 



London, lUh Nov. 1859. 



