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of that country than the 105 souls who were under the command 
of the heroic Crozier some time after landing on King William’s 
Land? Could I and my party with reasonable safety have re- 
mained to make a summer search on King William’s Land, it is 
not only probable that we should have recovered the logs and 
journals of Sir John Franklin’s Expedition, but have gathered up 
and entombed the remains of nearly 100 of his companions; for 
they lie about the places where the three boats have been found 
and at the large camping-place at the head of Terror bay and the 
three other places that I have already mentioned. In the cove, 
west side of Point Richardson, however, nature herself has 
opened her bosom and given sepulture to the bones of the im- 
mortal heroes who died there. Wherever the Eskimos have 
found the graves of Franklin’s companions, they have dug them 
open and robbed the dead, leaving them exposed to the ravages 
of wild beasts. 
“TI could have readily gathered great quantities—a very great 
variety—of RELICS. of Sir John Franklin’s Expedition, for they are 
now possessed by natives all over the Arctic regions that I 
visited or heard of—from Pond’s bay to Mackenzie river. As it 
was, I had to be satisfied with taking upon our sledges about 125 
pounds total weight of relics from natives about King William’s 
Some of these I will enumerate : 
“1. A portion of one side (several planks and ribs fast together) 
of a boat, clinker-built and copper-fastened. This part of a boat 
is of the one found near the boat found by McClintock’s party. 
2. A small oak sledge-runner, reduced from the sledge on which 
the boat rested. 3. Part of the mast of the Northwest Passage 
ship. 4. Chronometer-box, with its number, name of the maker, 
and the Queen’s broad arrow engraved upon it. 5. Two lon 
heavy sheets of copper, three and four inches wide, with counter- 
sunk holes for screw-nails. n these sheets, as well as on most 
everything else that came from the Northwest Passage ship, are 
numerous stamps of the Queen’s broad arrow. 6. Mahogany 
writing-desk, elaborately finished and bound in brass. 7. Many 
pieces of silver-plate, forks, and spoons, bearing crests and initials 
of the owners. 8. Parts of watches. 9. Knives and very many 
other things which you, Mr. Grinnell, and others interested in the 
fate of the Franklin Expedition will take a sad interest in inspect- 
ing on their arrival in the States. One entire skeleton I have 
brought to the United States} 
“ The same year that the Erebus and Terror were abandoned one 
of them consummated the Great Northwest Passage, having five 
1 After much hesitancy as though he might have done wrong in this, some time 
after his return, Hall placed the carefully-preserved remains in the charge of Mr. 
ore ey aut ts sate fa a la pppn reer ata was identi- 
ed =e o pead y Aia of the Erebus. Geographical 
Magazine, London, for April, 1878.) 
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