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200 FUTURE SLEDGE TRAVELLING. Chap. XI. 



Mj journey will be to tlie Great Fish River, 

 examining tlie shores of King William's Land 

 in going and returning ; Petersen will be with 

 me. 



Hobson will explore the western coast of 

 Boothia as far as the magnetic pole, this 

 autumn, I hope, and from Gateshead Island 

 westward next spring. 



Young will trace the shore of Prince of 

 Wales' Land from Lieutenant Browne's farthest, 

 to the southwestward to Osborn's farthest, if 

 possible, and also examine between Four River 

 Point and Cape Bird. 



Our probable absence will be sixty or seventy 

 days, commencing from about the 20th March. 



In this way I trust we shall complete the 

 Franklin search and the geographical discovery 

 of Arctic America, both left unfinished by the 

 former expeditions; and in so doing we can 

 hardly fail to obtain some trace, some relic, or, 

 it may be, important records of those whose 

 mysterious fate it is the great object of our 

 labours to discover. But previous to setting 

 forth upon these important journeys, I must 

 communicate with the Boothians, if possible, 

 either upon the west or east coast, in November 

 or February. Sir John Ross's ' Narrative ' in- 

 forms us that they sometimes winter as far 



