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Tha following diagrams illuatrata tha et de haut en bas, en prenant la nombre mathod: d'Imagaa nAcaaaaira. ilea diagrammas auivants illustrant la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 32X /> lieutenant schwatka showing the eskimos the "illustrated lonoon news.' Past 23. THE SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN. A NARRATIVE OF THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION ' UNDER LIEUTENANT SCHWATKA, 1878 to 1880. "JViTH Illustrations, FROM ENQRAVINOS DESIGNED BY THE AKXI8T OF THE EXPEDITION. T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW. EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK. 1882. ^p G-C^s Id IB • ^^2 III VI Til ©*0tttetttj5. *• . »- INTRODUCTION, I. BARLT EXPERIBKOES OV THS EXPLORING PARTY, 19 II. THE BTORIES OF THE NATIVES, 40 III. RBTRAOINO THEIR BTEPa, ... 66 IV. SEAL AND WALRUS HUNTING, 76 V. BAKE HOME, M VI. LIEUTENANT SOHWATKA'S PERSONAL NARRATIVE, 97 Til. THE VOYAGE OF THE "JBANNETTB," 118 4i963'8 . ^ifit of ^llttstratious. UICTENAMT SOHWATKA SHOWING THE EiMUJIOS THB " ILLVSTBATED LONDON N1W8," BKAKCHK.S, MAF OF SLEDQE JOURNEYS AND .. • • * 8 DOWN HILL, .. 1:7 DISCOVERY OF LIEUTENANT lRVINu'8 iiRAVE, .. d VIEW IN SUMMER, KINO WILLIAM'S LAND, . 03 ON THE SALMON CBBER, .. .. 77 REINDEER-HUNTINO IN KAYAKS, .. 91 CROSSING SIMPSON STRAIT IN KAYAKS, .. 103 BASAKING UP OF THE ICE, .. 107 ittiBpiece 8 £7 61 08 77 91 108 107 of tbe Sl«dg« Journey* and SMrctiet UCUT. mED'K tCHWATKA, H7t-Tt-eO . IMIn ft—iy w Kli^ 1WIII«» htmt uAnfm *•• THE SEAECH FOE FEAN KLIN. -- INTRODUCTION. |IR JOHN FRANKLIN had already earned a high reputation as an Arctic explorer when, in the spring of 1845, he was placed by the British Admiralty at the head of an expedition designed to prosecute the search after a North-West Pas- sage,—that is, a channel of communication between Baffin Bay on the west coast and Behring Strait on the east coast of North America. No better choice could have been made ; for he was a man of high scientific acquirements, of large experience, of undaunted courage, and of blameless character. Tlie two ships placed under his command were the Erebus and the TerrWy both of which had already en- countered the j)erils of the Arctic seas : in the former Frank- lin hoisted his own flag, the latter was in charge of Captain Crozier. Carefully equipped, provisioned for three years, and carrying one hundred and thirty-seven picked men as their crews, the two ships sailed from the Thames towards the end of May. On the 8th of June they left the Orkney Islands, and directed their course towards the extreme point of Greenland, known as Cape Farewell. A month later they dropped anchor for a while among an archipelago of rocky 10 INTRODUCTION. isleta on the east Hide of Baffin Bay. After a brief rest, Franklin pushed forward acrofis the bay to Lancaster Sound, his course being much impeded, however, by the pack-ice, which had not yet broken up. His ships were "spoken" about this time by a Hull whaler, the Prince of Waffs, to •whose master Franklin and Crozier reported that all wero well, and all confident of successfully accomplishing their high enterprise. That same evening, the 26th of July, the ice gave way ; and the Erebtis and the Terror^ steering to the north-west, plunged into Lancaster Sound. And then a cloud, as it were, descended upon them ; a darkness and a mystery : they passed into the frozen wastes of the Arctic WoHd, and disappeared as completely as if the sea had sud- denly engulfed them. Of late years, some memorials of them, as we shall see, have been discovered ; but even now the record is imperfect, and the wholo story of the fate of Franklin's expedition will never be revealed to the curious gaze of mankind. It was not expected that any news of the progress of tho voyagers would reach England until the summer of 1846, or even the spring of 1847 ; and no apprehensions, therefore, arose as to their safety until the latter date had passed. When the summer of 1848 came, without intelligence, a natural anxiety seized upon the public mind; and when the winter went by, and still nothing was heard of Franklin and his men, the anxiety deepened into alarm. At length the Government resolved to send expeditions in search of the missing heroea One was despatched under Sir James Ross, and another under Sir John Richardson ; but both failed to discover the slightest traces of their course.