. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . hundredof his companions, for they lie about the places where thethree boats have been found, and at the large camping-placeat the head of Terror Bay and the three other places that Ihave already mentioned. In the cove, west side of PointRichardson, however, Nature herself has opened her bosomand given sepulture to the remains of the immortal heroesthat have died there. Wherever I found that Sir John Franklins companionshad di
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . hundredof his companions, for they lie about the places where thethree boats have been found, and at the large camping-placeat the head of Terror Bay and the three other places that Ihave already mentioned. In the cove, west side of PointRichardson, however, Nature herself has opened her bosomand given sepulture to the remains of the immortal heroesthat have died there. Wherever I found that Sir John Franklins companionshad died I erected monuments, then fired salutes and wavedthe Star-Spangled Banner over them, in memory and resj)ectof the great and true discoverers of the l^orth-west passage. ^ I could have gathered great quantities—a very greatvariety—of relics of Sir John Franklins expedition, for theyare now possessed by natives all over the Arctic regions thatI visited or heard of, from Ponds Bay to Mackenzie it was, I had to be satisfied with taking upon our sledgesabout one hundred and twenty-five pounds total weight ofrelics from natives about King Williams CHAPTER POLAEIS EXPEDITION. On Capt. Halls return from his second residenceamong the Esquimaux, lie wisely concluded tliat aseven years search for relics of Sir John Franklin,whose fate had previously been pretty definitely ascer-tained, had exhausted that field of Arctic adventure,and he turned his attention to tlie project of a scientificexpedition toward the North Pole under Governmentauspices. His persistent efiiorts to arouse a nationalinterest in the enterprise w^ere at length successful, andCongress appropriated $50,000 for defraying the ex-penses of an expedition to be sent out in a governmentvessel under his command. Captain Halls plans of operation, as stated by himin a lecture given in December, 1870, and reported inthe Neio Yorlc Wo?ld, were in part as follows:— Crossing Bafiins Ba}^, he will g
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