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to them in the Grinnell expedition under Dr. Kane. In reply to our 
inquiries for the Esquimaux dog-driver “ Hans” left behind from the 
Advance in 1848, they told us that he was residing at Whale Sound. 
Had he been there I would most gladly have embarked him, as his 
longing to return to South Greenland continues unabated. 
On July 12th communicated with the Cape Warrender natives, near 
Cape Horsburg; they had not seen any ships since the visit of the 
Pheenix in 1854, nor have any wrecks ever drifted upon their shores. 
It was not until 27th July that we reached Points Inlet, owing to a 
most unusual prevalence of ice in the northern portion of Baffin’s Bay, 
and which rendered our progress since leaving Holsteinborg one of in- 
creasing struggle. Without steam power we could have done nothing. 
Here only one old woman and a boy were found, but they served to 
pilot us up the inlet for twenty-five miles, when we arrived at their 
village. For about a week we were in constant and most interesting 
communication with these friendly people. Briefly, the information 
obtained from them was, that nothing whatever respecting the Franklin 
expedition had come to their knowledge, nor had any wrecks within 
the last twenty or thirty years reached their shores. 
The remains of three wrecked ships are known to them; two of 
these appear to have been the whalers Dexterity and Aurora, wrecked 
in August, 1821, some seventy or eighty miles southward of Pond’s 
Inlet, The third vessel, now almost buried in the sand, lies a few 
miles east of Cape Hay. This people communicate overland every 
winter with the tribes at Igloolik ; they all knew of Parry’s ships hav- 
ing wintered there in 1822-8, and had heard of late years of Dr. Rae’s 
visit to Repulse Bay, describing his boats as similar to our whale boat, 
and his party ay living in tents, within snow houses, smoking pipes, 
shooting reindeer, &c., &c.~ None died. They remained there only 
one winter. 
No rumor of the lost expedition has reached them. Within Pond’s 
Inlet, the natives told us the ice decays away every year, but so long 
as any remains whales abound. Several large whales were seen by 
us, and we found amongst the natives a considerable quantity of 
whalebone and many norwhale’s horns, which they were anxious to 
barter for knives, files, saws, rifles, and wool; they drew us some. 
rude charts of the inlet, showing that it expands into an extensive 
channel looking westward into Prince Regent’s Inlet. We could not 
but regret that none of our own whaling friends—from whom we had 
recently received so much kindness—were here to profit by so favor- 
able an opportunity. Leaving Pond’s Inlet on the 6th August, we 
reached Beechy Island_on the 11th, and landed a handsome marble 
tablet, sent on board for this purpose by Lady Franklin, bearing an 
appropriate inscription to the memory of our lost countrymen in the 
Erebus and Terror. 
The provisions and stores seemed in perfect order, but a small boat 
was much damaged from having been turned over and rolled alor.g the 
