. Round about the North pole . nts of clothing appearingthrough the snow, evidently one of the men who, asthe old Eskimo woman said, fell down and died as theywalked along. Visiting Simpsons cairn at Cape Hers-chel and meeting with nothing, he went on for abouttwelve miles, where he caught sight of a small cairnbuilt by Hobsons party at their furthest south, reachedsix days before, containing a note with the great newsthat at Point Victory they had found what is nowknown as the Franklin record. This record, which has frequently been printed—in asmaller size than the original—was one of the nav
. Round about the North pole . nts of clothing appearingthrough the snow, evidently one of the men who, asthe old Eskimo woman said, fell down and died as theywalked along. Visiting Simpsons cairn at Cape Hers-chel and meeting with nothing, he went on for abouttwelve miles, where he caught sight of a small cairnbuilt by Hobsons party at their furthest south, reachedsix days before, containing a note with the great newsthat at Point Victory they had found what is nowknown as the Franklin record. This record, which has frequently been printed—in asmaller size than the original—was one of the navybottle-papers with the request in six languages thatit should be forwarded to the Admiralty. A pale bluepaper, twelve and a half inches by eight, it was filled upin the ordinary way, and then added to round the fourmargins in the handwriting of Lieutenant Gore. CaptainFitz James, and Captain Crozier, and signed by theseand C. F. Des Vceux. It had been first deposited fourmiles away, so it said, by the late Commander Gore,. THE FRANKLIN RECORD 213 in 1847, and next year found by Lieutenant Irving,added to, and removed to the new cairn on the site ofSir James Rosss pillar. Brief as it was, it contained all the authentic informa-tion regarding Franklins voyage up to the time the shipswere abandoned. Resuming the return journey alongthe edge of the strait where the meeting of the Pacificand Atlantic tides keeps the ice drifting down from thenorth-west almost constantly packed, MClintock reacheda boat with two skeletons and other relics already visitedby Hobson, who had found other cairns and manyrelics, and, in Back Bay, another record by Gore, alsodeposited in 1847, but giving no additional Hobson was dragged alongside the Fox, on the 14thof June, so ill with scurvy that he was unable to walk oreven stand without assistance. MClintock arrived fivedays later; and on the 27th Allen Young returnedafter an exploration of three hundred and eighty milesof coast-line, which,
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