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T H E F R A N K L I N E X P E D I T I O N 457
and Cape Jane Franklin respectively. Eighteen years afterwards
Franklin's ships perished within sight of these headlands
! The point at which the fatal imprisonment of the
Erebus and Terror in the ice took place is only ninety miles
from the spot reached hy the Hudson's Bay Company's expedition,
under Dease and Simpson, in 1839, coming from the
West. Ninety miles more of open water and the Franklin
crews would not only have won the prize they sought, but
reached their homes to wear their well- earned honours. It
was not to be so! Let us bow in humility and awe at the inscrutable
decrees of that Providence who ruled it otherwise. It
was given them to win for their country the longssought- for
great highway between - the Atlantic and Pacific. It was
given them to win for their country a discovery for which
she had risked her sons and lavishly spent her wealth for
several centuries; but they were to die in accomplishing their
last great earthly task, and, still more strange, but for the
energy and devotion of the noble and loving wife of their
chief and leader, it might never have been known that they
were indeed the first discoverers of a North- west passage!"
The expedition under Captain McClintock which obtained
this information was the last of eighteen sent out from England
in search of Franklin and his followers. A more ample
and creditable effort to rescue a lost party was never made,
and it was humanely seconded by^ our sympathetic kindred
of the United States of America. From the earliest Arctic
researches of John Cabot, at the end of the fifteenth century,
however, to the voyage of McClintock, there have been about
one hundred and thirty expeditions. Sir James Ross, in
1847, thought the Franklin ships might be heard of or looked
for about latitude 73° north and longitude 135° west. Sir
John Richardson coincided in this view; but it is only rendering
justice to the memory of the late Dr. Richard King, M. D.
— former companion of Admiral Sir George Back, when he
discovered and descended the Great Fish River in 1833— to
state that, early in 1847, he strongly suggested and thereafter
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| OCR | T H E F R A N K L I N E X P E D I T I O N 457 and Cape Jane Franklin respectively. Eighteen years afterwards Franklin's ships perished within sight of these headlands ! The point at which the fatal imprisonment of the Erebus and Terror in the ice took place is only ninety miles from the spot reached hy the Hudson's Bay Company's expedition, under Dease and Simpson, in 1839, coming from the West. Ninety miles more of open water and the Franklin crews would not only have won the prize they sought, but reached their homes to wear their well- earned honours. It was not to be so! Let us bow in humility and awe at the inscrutable decrees of that Providence who ruled it otherwise. It was given them to win for their country the longssought- for great highway between - the Atlantic and Pacific. It was given them to win for their country a discovery for which she had risked her sons and lavishly spent her wealth for several centuries; but they were to die in accomplishing their last great earthly task, and, still more strange, but for the energy and devotion of the noble and loving wife of their chief and leader, it might never have been known that they were indeed the first discoverers of a North- west passage!" The expedition under Captain McClintock which obtained this information was the last of eighteen sent out from England in search of Franklin and his followers. A more ample and creditable effort to rescue a lost party was never made, and it was humanely seconded by^ our sympathetic kindred of the United States of America. From the earliest Arctic researches of John Cabot, at the end of the fifteenth century, however, to the voyage of McClintock, there have been about one hundred and thirty expeditions. Sir James Ross, in 1847, thought the Franklin ships might be heard of or looked for about latitude 73° north and longitude 135° west. Sir John Richardson coincided in this view; but it is only rendering justice to the memory of the late Dr. Richard King, M. D. — former companion of Admiral Sir George Back, when he discovered and descended the Great Fish River in 1833— to state that, early in 1847, he strongly suggested and thereafter |
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