. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. â ^ »* '⢠'J m fiiii mI :i 'If ill M i 'f ii! -;/ 1'/^ 22 PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. leered his services, was subsequently engaged, at a salary, as surgeon and naturalist to the expedition. Three men only (two of whom were carpenters and shipwrights) were taken from England: the remainder, as will hereafter be seen, were selected either from Montreal or from the Company's posta in t
. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. â ^ »* '⢠'J m fiiii mI :i 'If ill M i 'f ii! -;/ 1'/^ 22 PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. leered his services, was subsequently engaged, at a salary, as surgeon and naturalist to the expedition. Three men only (two of whom were carpenters and shipwrights) were taken from England: the remainder, as will hereafter be seen, were selected either from Montreal or from the Company's posta in the interior. To present at one view the objects, purpose, and direction of the service, the execution of which is narrated in the fol- lowing pages, it will be proper to mention here, that exactly one year after our departure from Canada, by a despatch which had been forwarded with the most praiseworthy dili- gence by the Hudson's Bay Company,* I received the happy intelligence of Captain Ross's providential return, communi- cated in the following letter from Sir Charles Ogle, Baronet: i< *^rclic Land Expedition, "21 Regent 22n(l Oct. 18! "Sir, "I have much pleasure in acquainting you, on the part of the Committee for managing your expedition, that Captain Ross and tlic survivors of his party returned to England a few days ago, in a whaler, which picked them uiy|MfiA*ow Straits; and that thus one object of your ^^j^BM^^^^^^^^- pily attained. "In concert, therefore, with his (though the signature of the Secre, *Tlie extraordinary expedition with AV^^HVdespatch was trans- mitted is wortliy of being recorded; and ^BJP^ therefore, in the Ap- pendix, given a few particularM which will be interesting to the (5-overnment for the Colo- i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origina
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