OCT. 29. 



MOOHE'S RURAL HEW-YOREER. 



SIB JOU* FU5ILIVS FATE ISCKRTlUiED 



BETUBJ* OF LADY FBATfKXDCS EXPEDITION. 



indred years the ettentior 



: principal I 



; of Eu 



rented 10 the AntlO regions. Of IU'» AM dime, 



steiuborg o 



locked ■□ crcrUstmg ice, little was known, aod 

 •trnne desire for further knowledge. Expeditions 



s'eam powe 

 only one ol 

 they Berved 



of b*rdyar.d courageous adventurers, aided and 

 encouraged by Governments. Geographical aDd 



•reelc we W 



tent on perilous voyages of discovery to these 

 inhospitable seas and shores. Tbe earliest at- 



Briefly, the 



tempts to navigate 'he Arctic seas were induced 

 by the hope of finding a north-west passage to 



srsst 1 



objects sought and gai 



n the2t"hof Ma; 



s, tbe lirtbus aod 

 xpected borne, ni 



• Hut 



public ben 

 odertaten v 



icy pn 



higher aod holier motives,— tbe 

 if possible, these noble men from 

 house. In 1818 three expeditions were s 



IS.'jf three more were sent out by the Goron 

 beside Uvn bv Lady Filani.lin, two by publ 

 Borfption, and nne by Henby Grinnbll o 

 York. Fusnnfl first winter quarters 

 found, but nothing more. In 1852 Sir E 

 Btuueu sailed from England, in search o 

 with five vessels, and Commander Dayl 



in tbe Bpring of ISM), and later, of thirty while 

 corpses and some graves on the eontioeot, and 

 five corpses, considerably eaten, on an island a 

 few miles to (he north- ni'st of l Lie mouth ofUack'a 



Up., r. 



Dr. Rak for: 



the inland in 1665j and found many articles, but 

 no bodies, lie was unable to reach the principal 

 eceno of disastar. Tbe fate of Sir Jon* remained 

 a mystery until tbo discovery of M'Climtock, of 

 which we give a full account, with a portrait of 

 SirJoiiM Franklin, aod a view of Winter Quar- 

 ters in the Arctic Region. 



Tbo London Timet, from which we copy, Capt. 

 M'Cuntikk's Report, says — "Tho Fox screw 

 discovery vessel, Capt. M'Cmntuck, It. N., which 

 had been sent to the Arctic Regions, at the ex- 

 pense of Lady Franklin, to discover traces of tbe 

 missing expedition, arrived oil' the Isle of Wight 

 on Wednesday, Sept. 21. Oa landing, Capt. 

 M'Clintlh'k at once came on by train for London, 

 bringing with him two cases containing relics of 

 tbe long- missing <->\ | n'diiiuii of Sir. Jons Franklin, 

 Tbe fallowing are copies of original papers left 

 by Sir John Franklin, and found by Capt. 

 M'CuNTot'K oa Prince of Walt* IxUnd : 



Tbe ] 



. ftfo- 



><:,■!(><. , 



i Oft 



■ have any wrecks ever 4 



! 27th July that we rei 

 to a most unuBntl proTi 



n portion of Baffin's Baj 

 r progress nine* leaving 

 icreasmg struggle. Without 



Tbe rem 



soft 



f these 



tof C 



wh.lera Dexterity and Ai 

 August, 1S21, seventy or eigh 

 of Pond's Inlet. Tbe third ' 



Uay. Thia people communicate overland ever 

 winter with the tribes at Iglook. Tbey all kuei 

 of Parry's ships having wintered there in 1922-1: 

 and had beard of late years of Dr. Rao's visit t 

 Repulse Day, describing his boats as similar t 

 our whaleboat. and his party as living io lent) 

 within Boow-houses, smoking pipes, sboottn, 

 reindeer, &c. None died. They remained ther 



We 



- of tbe lost exr. 

 lin Pond's Inlet 

 re away every yei 



t but regret t 



n has reached 

 so long as any 



handsome 

 purpose by 



whaling fri. 



ceived so much kindness— were here 

 rable an oppportunity. Lea 



Island on the lltb, and landed 



Lady Franklin, bearing an appropriate inscription 

 to the memory of our lost countrymen in the 

 Erebus and Terror. 



der, but a small boat was much damaged from 



having been turned over and rolled along the 



beach by a storm. The roof of the bouse received 



me necessary repairs. Having embarked some 



Cape Hotham on the 16th, we sailed down Peel 

 Strait for SG miles on the 17th, but finding tbe re- 

 nder of this channel covered by unbroken ice, 

 ;termined to make for Bellot Strait on tbe 19th 

 of August, examined into supplies remaining at 

 Port Leopold, and left there u wbale boat, which 

 Cape Hotham for tbe pur- 





t shoul 



eventually to abandon the Fox. The 

 lunch had been forced higher up on the 

 nd somewhat damaged by tbe ico. Prince 

 Regent's Inlet was unusually free from ice; but 

 very little was seen duriog our run to Brentford 

 Bay, which we reached on the 2t)tb of August.— 

 Bellot Strait, which communicates will 

 ern sea, averages one mile in width by 17 or 18 

 miles in length. At this time it was filled with 

 drift ico, but aa the season advanced became per- 

 fectly clear; its shores are in many places faced 

 lofty granite child, and some of the adjacent 





the 6lb of September we paseed Bellot Strait 

 without obstruction, and secured the ship to fixed 

 ice across its western outlet. From here, until 

 tin.' 2" tii. when I deemed it necessary 



Oar wintering position was at the east entrance 

 *> Bellot Strait, in a enuc harbor, which I have 

 lamed Port Kennedy, oftor my predecessor in 



hough vegetation was tolerably abundant, and 

 mrtwo Esquimaux hunters, Mr. Peterson, and 



'en months 



er fowl and 



1 stormy. — 

 ; tbe winter 



FRANKUN. 

 sbow village containing about SO inhabitants. - 

 Tbey gathered about us without the slightest a] 

 pearaoee of fear or shyness, although none hs 

 ever seen living white people before. Tbey wei 



eighteen seals, and a few w 



winter was unusually cold a 

 ements were completed duri 

 ■ying out our intended plar 

 o be my duty personally to 

 ni n g proposed to 



rWill 



iait Marshal 



To Lieut. Hobson I allotted the search of the 

 western shore of Boothia to tbe magnetic pole, 

 and from Gateshead Island westward to Wyn- 

 niatt's furthest. Capt. Allen Young, our sailing 

 master, wos to trace the shore of a-ince of Wales 

 Land, from Browne's furthest ; and also to exam- 

 ine the coast from IVMoi Strait northward, to Sir 



sRai 



Early Spring journeys were commenced on the 

 7th of February, 1859, by Capt- Young and my- 

 elf, Capt. Young carrying his depot across to 

 'rince of Wales Land, while I went southward, 

 oward the magnetic poll 



e hope of comn 

 once to tbe obj 



, ; ,d t b. 



information as might lead uj 

 of our search. 



I wa3 accompanied by Mr. Peterson 

 preler, and Alexander Thompson, qua] 

 We had with us two sledges drawn by 

 Feb. 28, when near Cape Victorio, w 

 good vortune to meet a small party of natives, 

 and were subsequently visited by about forty-five 

 individuals. 



For four days we remained in communication 

 with them, obtaining many relics, and tbe info r- 

 ■al years ago a ship was crushed 

 by the ice off the north shore, off King William 

 Island, but that all her people landed safely, and 

 went away to the Great Fish Ri 

 died. This tribe was well supplied with wood, 

 obtained, they said, from a boat left by tbe white 



nod barter all the 

 everything had I 

 Many more relics 





all i 



purchased. They pointed to the inlet we had 

 crossed tbe day before, ami told us that one day's 

 march up it, and from thence four days overland, 

 brought them to the wreck. 



None of these people had been there since 1857- 

 8, at which time they said bnt little remained, 

 their countrymen having carried away almost 

 everything. 



Most of our information wos received from an 

 intelligent old woman. She said it was in the 

 fall of the year that the ship was forced ashore.— 

 Many of the white men dropped by the way, as 

 they went toward the Great River; but thia was 

 only known to tbem in the winter following, when 

 their bodies were discovered. They all assured us 

 that wc would lii:d native* upon the south shore. 



■ Gn-at Rir 



I Island, i 



rplat 







Point Ogle, Montreal. I si and, and Barrow Island, 



few scraps of copper and iron in an Esquimau* 



Recrossiog the Strait to King William Island, 

 wo continued the examination of its southern shore 

 without success until the 24th of May, when, about 

 ten miles eastward of Cape Herschel, a bleached 

 skeleton was found, around which lay fragment; 

 of European clothing. Upon carefully removing 

 the soow a small pocket-book was found contain- 

 ing a few letters; these, although much decayed, 

 may yet be deciphered. Judging from tbe remains 



April, UfiS, after a winter's ice drift of 1,1M gco 

 graphical miles. The small seltlemenlof Holstein 

 borg was reached on the Ulh, and such ver 

 scanty supplies obtained as the place afforded. 



On May nth our voyage was recommenced 

 Godhaven and Uppernavik visited, Mtlvillo Bu' 



by the 26 th. Here some natives were communi 



cated with. They immcdiatelv recogniied Mi 



Peterson, our interpreter, formerly known 1 



eGrinnell expedition, under Dr. Kan 



la reply to our inquiries for the Esquimaux de 



driver "Hans," lett behind from the Advance i 



1 KB, the] told us that he was residing at Whale 



Sound. Had he been there I would most gladly 



have embarked him, us his longing to return to 



b. Greenland continues unabated. 



On the 12tb July communicated with tbe Cape 



attire*, near Cape Horsburgh, they 



jnd not seen any ships since the visit of the 



nel. In mid-ebanncl it was broken up and drift- 

 ing about; gradually tbe proportion of water in- 

 creased, until at length the ice which intervened 

 was reduced to tbree or four miles in width. But 



tby i 



islets, i 



withstood the violence of the Autumn gales. It 

 ivas tantalizing beyond description thus to watch 

 From day to day the free water which we could not 

 reach, and which washed the rocky shore a few 

 miles to the southward of us. 



faring the Autumn attempts' were made to 

 carry out depots of provisions towards the mag- 

 netic pole ; but these almost entirely failed, owing 

 to the disruption of the ice to the southward.— 

 Lieutenant Hobson returned with his sledge 

 parties in November, after much suffering from 



upon which they 





far as Cape Victoria ; each ofus had 

 a sledge drawn by four men, aod an auxiliary 

 sledge drawn by six dogs. This was all the force 

 we could muster. 



Before separating we saw two Esquimaux fam- 

 ilies living out upon the ice in snow huts, from 



off King William Island, and that she drifted 

 ashore in tbe fall of the same year. From this 

 ship they bad obtained a vast deal of wood and 



I now gave Lieut. Ilobson directions to search 

 for the wreck, and follow up any traces he might 

 find upon King William Island. 



Accompanied by toy own party and Mr. Peter- 

 son, I marched along the east shore of King 

 William Island, occasionally passing deserted 



ten off Cape Nort 



..-.-■'.! a 



from me at Capo Victoria c 

 ieut. Hobson made for Cape Felix; 

 a short distance westward of it, he found a very 

 large cairn, and close to it tbree small tent3, with 

 binnkets, old clothes, and other relics of a shoot- 

 ing or a magnetic station ; hut although tbe cairn 

 was dug under, and a trench dug all around it at 

 a distance of ten feet, no record wastiiscoverod.— 

 A piece of blank paper folded up as was found in 

 the cairn, and two broken bottles, which may per- 

 haps have contained records, lay beside it, among 

 some stones which bad fallen from off the top.— 

 The most interesting of 

 here, including a boat's en: 

 by Mr. Hobson. About t 



records r 

 north of Point ^ 

 examined, 1 



found. 



wrought away 



(op of this cairn was found a small tin case, con- 

 taining a record, the substance of which i| bru-fly 

 as follows :— This cairn was built by the Fmnklio. 

 Expedition upon the assumed site of James (.,.,,' 

 pillar, whioh hod not been found. The EreOosaad, 

 Terror spent their first winter at Beech? Island, 

 after having ascended Wellington Channel to let. 

 7' N., and returned by the west side of Cornwall!! 

 Island. On tbe lith September, 1846, they were 



rJ, Fran] 



N, 





llong ! 





' w. 



of Ju 



doned five leagues to the N. N. W. of Point Vic- 

 tory, and the survivora 105 in number, landed 

 here under the command of Capt. Crosier. Tbis 

 paper was dated 25th of April, 1S4S, and upon tho 

 following day tbey intended to start for the Great 

 Fish River. The total loss by deaths in tbe expe- 

 dition up to this date was nine officers and fifteen 

 men. A vast quantity of clothing and stores of 

 all sorts lay strewed about, as if here every article 

 uld possibly be dispen- 



, blocks, cunw; a din circle. 







graved "Frednc Hornby, It. N.," a 





II.' chest, oars, Ac. 



second reco 

 bv Lieut. Go 



It afforded n 



c and M. de* V..'ii\, m May, 1-17.— 



afewdajs'i 

 ingnn.v trac 



sod continued his si-arcti until within 

 >n-!i ol Cii|.-' H.T.ich c l. without God- 

 of the wreck or ol uauv,-. He left 



ton Of his importaot dicc-vonr-i lor 



me; tberelo 







SX,oS 



icr T„c : 



llv.K".|H..i'L 



JBiS'rtnSE 







w islets lie off ir.aud 















camera "lirg 





nd long. 00* 27' W., we 

 overea by Lieut. Hob- 













oat had been intended 



lipa,, the sledge tipi 



feet in length, by 7 ', feet wide, - 

 fitted, and made as light as posai 



A large quantity of clotbing 

 her, also two hutnoo skeletons. 

 in the after part of tbe boat, urn 



having found anything furt 

 books, &c„ withoi 



i again examined for doi 



jrouabt away 



lory, without 

 The clothing. 







urned, having completed 

 0& and Browne dia 



Itellot Strait and Sir Jur 

 River Bay. 



pt.Voun^a 

 tyofP.i' 



Fearing < 



painfully . 

 I,»-iiten,i 



in good 1 



>rtyd 



macompara 

 sound health 



w, at length, all on hoard 



mi ccs ut Burton ule.leojo 

 no,| were pnl into nanism 

 lvely sbart time all were 



Hr. Geo. Bra 



itieiHti of \ 

 shooliug for 



sojourn in I'ort Kenned 



id,, ..'iigli.O.r, died of uj 



Thomas Blac 



; rt cli.s|„/,,l.-.v,»i.J.d,.-d 



>int. Forsii 

 i a chough ol 



u, to God-h« 

 of 



nd tbe local 



. jnud wnb i.'.ri:a'. klndLu ,r> In Mr 



tor of North Grceoloud, and" " 

 boobhginglysuppliedou 

 ,: ,J rivers wi 



far 



XS..U t 



l be gleaned from the r 

 .-in..' ufl.irded by the boai 

 clothing and Bqaipmen 



and every effort exerted during tbe third wi 



render the traveling equipments complete. 



It is much to be apprehended that disea 



greatly reduced the strength of all on boar 



