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the front in the accompanying sketch. Its inscrip- 
tion, cut in by a chisel, ran thus : 
" Sacred 
to the 
memory 
of 
W. Brains, R. M., 
H. M. S. Erebus. 
Died April 3d, 1846, 
aged 32 years. 
' Choose ye this day whom ye will serve.' 
Joshua, ch. xxiv., 15." 
The second was : 
" Sacred to the memory of 
John Hartnell, A. B. of H. M. S. 
Erebus, 
aged 23 years. 
'Thus saith the Lord, consider your ways.' 
Haggai, i., 7." 
The third and last of these memorials was not quite 
so well finished as the others. The mound was not 
of stone- work, but its general appearance was more 
grave-like, more like the sleeping-place of Christians 
in happier lands. It was inscribed : 
" Sacred 
to 
the memory 
of 
John Torrington, 
who departed this life 
January 1st, A.D. 1846, 
on board of 
H. M. ship Terror, 
aged 20 years." 
"Departed this life on board the Terror, 1st January, 
1846 !" Franklin's ships, then, had not been wrecked 
when he occupied the encampment at Beechy ! 
Two large stones were imbedded in the friable lime- 
stone a little to the left of these sad records, and near 
tliem was a piece of wood, more than a foot in diam- 
