822 General Notes. [ November, | 
first Neitchillik encampment. Near it on an inlet west of Point 
Richardson a boat, skeletons and many relics had been found by 
the natives. 
This is believed to be the furthest point reached by the rem- 
nant of Franklin’s company, and here Lieut. Schwatka also 
believes the records of the expedition were finally lost, having 
been contained in a tin box which was broken open by the Esqui- 
maux and its contents scattered to the winds 
Lieut. Schwatka first reached King William Land at the mouth 
of Pfeffer river, where he visited the cairn erected by Capt. C. F. 
Hall in May, 1869. On June 15th, the party arrived at Cape 
Herschell, when they left most of their men in a permanent 
camp. Cape Herschell was found to be about eighteen or twenty — 
miles further west than it is given on the charts of the Admiralty. 
Continuing their journey along the coast they discovered the 
graves of two white men before reaching Collinson’s inlet, and at 
the inlet the camp of Capt. Crozier and his command after aban- 
doning the vessels. They found many relics here and an opened 
grave, the remains in which were identified by a medal found 
with them as those of Lieut. John Irving, third officer of the 
Terror. Itis probable that Lieut. Irving was conducting a small 
party back to the ship for provisions after the crews had reached 
the southern shore of King William Land, and that the men said 
by the Eskimos to have drifted with the ship to O’Reilly’s island, 
belonged to this return party. Among the ruins of a cairn was 
found a copy of the record discovered by Lieut. Hobson, of Mc- 
Clintock’s expedition in Sir Leopold McClintock’s handwriting, 
and partially illegible. This was the only document found during 
the journey. McClintock’s record buried near the cairn was 
searched for but not found. : 
Leaving Irving bay on June 30th, they reached Cape Felix on 
the 3d of July. No traces of the Franklin expedition were 
found until three miles south of the cape, where the remains of a 
permanent camp were seen. A well built cairn or pillar seven 
feet high on a high hill two miles back from the coast was exam- 
ined without finding any records. Returning down the coast a 
careful examination of the country within five or six miles of the 
coast was made, and at Point Le Vesconte the grave of an officer 
was found; also in the neighborhood of Erebus bay sever 
skeletons, and in a deep inlet the remains of a very large boat. 
Cenotaphs were erected wherever human remains were found. 
The skeletons were always incomplete and it was not always wen 
sible to tell the number of individuals represented in the piles O 
bones found, 
The ice broke up in Erebus bay about the Ist of nee 
Reaching Terror bay on August 3d, the search was continue 
along the coast as far west as Cape Crozier, only one skeleton 
