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tioned in tlie record — actually entered the ice. 

 The five invalids were — 



From H.M.S. ' Terror,' John Brown, Able Seaman. 



„ Eobert Carr, Armourer. 



„ James Elliot, Sailmaker. 



„ William Aitken, Marine. 



From H.M.S. ' Erebus,' Thomas Birt, Armourer. 



The relics we have brought home have been 

 deposited by the Admiralty in the United 

 Service Institution, and now form a national 

 memento — the most simple and most touching — 

 of those heroic men who perished in the path 

 of duty, but not until they had achieved the 

 grand object of their voyage, — the Discovery of 

 the North - West Passage. - 



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London, 2Uh Nov. 1859. 



