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A Comparative Analysis of the Su-Pung-Er and Bayne Testimonies Polar Record. Page 1 of 19. © Cambridge University Press 2017. doi:10.1017/S0032247417000535 1 A comparative analysis of the Su-pung-er and Bayne testimonies related to the Franklin expedition Tom Gross 39 Wild Rose Drive, Hay River, NT, X03 0R4, Canada Russell S. Taichman Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, 1011 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA ([email protected]) Received May 2017 ABSTRACT. During Charles Francis Hall’s second Arctic expedition (1864–1869) to find survivors and/or documents of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 Northwest Passage expedition, two separate Inuit testimonies were recorded of a potential burial vault of a high-ranking officer. The first testimony was provided by a Boothia Inuk named Su-pung-er. The second testimony was documented by Captain Peter Bayne who, at the time, was employed by Hall. To date the vault has not been found. Recently, both the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror have been located. The discovery of these vessels was made possible, in part, by Inuit testimony of encounters with and observations of the Franklin expedition. The findings of the Erebus and Terror have significantly bolstered the view that the Inuit accurately reported their observations and interactions with the Franklin crew. The purpose of this paper is to publish in their entirety Hall’s notes from conversations with Su-pung-er focused on the vaults and to compare these observations to those reported in the Bayne testimony. It is our hope that in so doing the final major archaeological site of the Franklin expedition may be located. In 1860, Charles Francis Hall launched the first Introduction of two expeditions believing it was his calling to The goal of the 1845 Franklin expedition was to map and uncover what had happened to the Franklin expedi- complete the first transit of the northern coast of North tion (Hall, 1864). Hall planned to travel to Baffin Is- America, an area commonly referred to as the Northwest land, hire Inuit to serve as guides and interpreters, Passage. The expedition was commanded by Sir John and then travel to KWI. Hall did not reach KWI Franklin, RN and was comprised of two Royal Navy ves- during his 1860–1862 expedition, but befriended an sels, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. HMS Terror was English-speaking Inuit couple, Ebierbing (E-bier-bing) under the command of Captain Francis Crozier and Erebus and Tookolito (Too-koo-li-too), who would travel with was captained by James Fitzjames (Woodman, 1991). The him on subsequent journeys. Hall returned to the Arctic vessels left England in May 1845 and, after being sighted in 1864, where during the next five years he interviewed in Baffin Bay in July 1845 by whalers, neither ship nor any Inuit who had encountered members of the Franklin of the 129 crewmen were ever seen or heard from again expedition. by contemporary Europeans (Cyriax, 1969). In the spring of 1866, Hall had several interviews with The first evidence of what happened to the expedition an Inuk from the Boothia Peninsula named Su-pung-er. came in 1850 when it was learned from the gravestones Three winters prior, Su-pung-er and his uncle reported of three Franklin crew members that the ships had that they had visited the north end of KWI to search for overwintered in 1845–1846 at Beechey Island on the objects left by the Franklin crew (Fig. 1). Su-pung-er told south coast of Devon Island (House of Commons and Hall that there was an underground burial site or ‘vault’ Command, 1851). In 1854, Dr John Rae, working for the on KWI. Su-pung-er’s testimony included a description Hudson Bay Company, encountered a group of Inuit near of a wooden pillar, tightly fitting stones and a human Pelly Bay from who he learned that most the Franklin crew skull near the vault. Hall recorded the testimony in his had died of starvation along the shores of King William travelling note books and private journals (Fig. 2) and Island (KWI) (Rae, 1889). In 1859, Captain Francis in letters sent to his sponsors, which are now housed McClintock and members of the Fox Expedition (1857– at the Archives Center, National Museum of American 1859) reached KWI and recovered a note left by Crozier History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC, USA). and Fitzjames at Victory Point (McClintock, 1860). From Unfortunately, Hall died prior to publishing the findings the note it was learned that the ships had become trapped of his second expedition. When Hall’s biographer J.E. in the heavy ice northwest of KWI in September 1846. Nourse edited and published Hall’s journals in 1879, In an addendum to the note made in April 1848, it was Su-pung-er’s testimony was limited to a few short learned that the expedition had deserted their ships with paragraphs with minimal mention of his descriptions of the intent to travel overland to reach the Back Fish River. the vault found on KWI (Hall & Nourse, 1879). The first Critically, the addendum reported that, ‘Sir John Franklin detailed report of the Su-pung-er testimony did not come died on the 11th June, 1847’. until 112 years later, when David Woodman published 2 GROSS AND TAICHMAN Fig. 1. Map of King William Island showing the reported path travelled by Su-pung-er, and the possible paths of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and the Franklin crew. a brief report describing what Su-pung-er had observed (Burwash, 1931). However, a 1913 newspaper report (Woodman, 1995b). indicates that Bayne purchased the schooner Duxbury and During Hall’s second expedition, Hall hired Peter intended to use it to sail to KWI to search for the ‘Franklin Bayne, Patrick Coleman and several others from the vault’ (Morning Oregonian, 1913; Scientific American, nearby whaling fleet to gather food for him in preparation 1913). Later, a 1930 newspaper report suggested that for his trip to KWI. While Hall was away from camp, two men, George Jamme and T.W. ‘Judge’ Jackson, had the hired whalers interviewed an Inuit couple from Pelly befriended Bayne before his death and had learned the Bay and learned of their interactions with the crew of location of the vault and intended to seek its location the Franklin expedition. When Hall returned to camp, (Evening Post, 1930). While performing a survey of the and for reasons which remain unclear, Hall claimed that north for the government of the Northwest Territories, Coleman was in the process of staging a mutiny and thus Major L.T. Burwash was instructed to visit KWI to seek Hall shot and killed Coleman. Based upon the Pelly Bay evidence of the vault based on the Jamme report (Burwash, Inuit’s testimony, Bayne claimed to know where Franklin 1931). was buried in a vault-like structure on KWI (Scientific To date, the Franklin ‘vault’ has not been found. American, 1913). Furthermore, to our knowledge, the complete testimony Like Hall’s report, the testimony gathered by Bayne of Hall’s interactions with Su-pung-er has not been was not disclosed in full until after Bayne’s death published. Recently, both HMS Erebus and Terror were FRANKLIN’S VAULTS 3 Fig. 2. a. and b. A journal in which Hall designated ‘Hall, C.F. Sir John Franklin Book – Continuing information gained from time to time of the Innuits relative to Franklin’s Last Expedition by C.F. Hall, Repulse Bay’ (Hall, 1868a). c. Journal kept by Hall 1866, May–June 1866 (Hall, 1866d). d. Journal ‘B’ kept by Hall during the time he spent with the Esquimaux during his second expedition in December 1868 (Hall, 1868b). e. Hall’s field notebooks. located, based in part on testimony provided by Inuit who November 2015 the collection was accessed to record had encountered members of the Franklin expedition. The material that has not been published in its entirety. The finding of Erebus and Terror has significantly bolstered the collection constitutes a vast array of documents ranging view that Inuit testimony is generally reliable based upon from loose notes, bound books and field journals contain- their observations. Therefore, the purpose of this paper ing both notes of the day and navigational calculations is to publish Hall’s notes focused on Su-pung-er’s vault (Fig. 2). testimony, and to compare these findings to those reported Hall kept several journals focused on the Franklin by Bayne. It is our hope that in so doing the final major expedition in which notes pertaining to his encounters archaeological site of the Franklin expedition may at last with Su-pung-er are recorded. The majority of these be located. encounters were recorded in ink in a bound journal labelled by the Smithsonian as ‘Journal kept by Hall Transcription of testimonies 1866, May–June 1866’ (Fig. 2c), (Hall, 1866c) and a The Charles Francis Hall Collection is housed at the journal in which Hall designated ‘Hall, C.F. Sir John Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Franklin Book – Continuing information gained from Smithsonian Institution. On 7–8 October 2015 and 4–5 time to time of the Innuits relative to Franklin’s Last 4 GROSS AND TAICHMAN Expedition by C.F. Hall, Repulse Bay’ (Fig. 2a,b) (Hall, my Inuit’s Co. that the prospects of my further ad- 1868a). Two further journals provided additional source vance toward King William’s Land seemed anything material: (1) journal ‘A’ kept by Hall during the time he else than good. On Wednesday morning (yesterday spent with the Esquimaux during his second expedition morning) E-bier-bing came into my igloo + told me in December 1868 (Hall, 1868b), and (2) journal ‘B’ that N˘uk-er-zhoo & Ar-mon wanted to have me meet (Fig.
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