franklin’s encampment. 
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“ A fifth circle is discernible nearer the cliffs, which 
may have belonged to the same party. It was less 
perfect than the others, and seemed of an older date. 
“ On the beach, some twenty or thirty yards from 
the triangular inclosure, were several pieces of pine 
wood about four inches long, painted green, and white, 
and black, and, in one instance, puttied ; evidently 
parts of a boat, and apparently collected as kindling 
wood.” 
The indications were meagre, but the conclusion 
they led to was irresistible. They could not he the 
work of Esquimaux : the whole character of them con- 
tradicted it : and the only European who could have 
visited Cape Riley was Parry, twenty-eight years be- 
fore ; and we knew from his journal that he had not 
encamped here. Then, again, Ommanney’s discovery 
of like vestiges on Beechy Island, j ust on the track of 
a party moving in either direction between it and the 
channel : all these speak of a land party from Frank- 
lin’s squadron. 
Our commander resolved to press onward along the 
eastern shore ofWellington Channel. We were un- 
der weigh in the early morning of the 26 th, and work- 
ing along with our consort toward Beechy — I drop 
the “ Island,” for it is more strictly a peninsula or a 
promontory of limestone, as high and abrupt as that 
at Cape Riley, connected with what we call the main 
by a low isthmus. Still further on we passed Cape 
Spencer ; then a fine bluff point, called by Parry Point 
Innes ; and further on again, the trend being to the 
east of north, we saw the low tongue. Cape Bowden. 
Parry merely sighted these points from a distance, so 
that the shore line has never been traced. I sketch- 
ed it myself with some care ; but the running survey 
