262 NEWS OF FEANKLIN'S PEOPLE. Chap. XIV, 



venison, dried and frozen salmon, and sold 

 some of my puppies. They told us it was five 

 days' journey to the wropk, — one day up the 

 inlet still in sight, and four days overland ; this 

 would carry them to the western coast of King 

 William Land ; they added that but little now 

 remained of the wreck which was accessible, 

 their countrymen having carried almost every- 

 thing away. In answer to an inquiry, they said 

 she was without masts ; the question gave rise 

 to some laughter amongst them, and they spoke 

 to each other about fire, from which Petersen 

 thought they had burnt the masts through close 

 to the deck in order to get them down. 



There had been many 66>ofc they said, but all 

 have long ago been destroyed by the weather ; 

 the ship was forced on shore in the fall of the 

 year by the ice. She had not been visited 

 during this past winter, and an old woman and 

 a boy were shown to us who were the last to 

 visit the wreck ; they said they had been at it 

 during the winter of 1857-8. 



Petersen questioned the woman closely, and 

 she seemed anxious to give all the information 

 in her power. She said many of the white 

 men dropped by the way as they went to the 

 Great Biver ; that some were buried and some 

 were not ; they did not themselves witness this. 



