. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. 243 For the past three weeks we have been living on pttir-migan, rabbits, two reindeer, and SHOOTING SEAL. They are fast curing our scurvy. With all thes?resources,—coming to our relief so suddenly too,—hov/can my thoughts turn despairingly to poor Franklinand his crew ? .... Can they have survived ? No man cananswer with certainty; but no man without presump-tion can answer in the negative. If, four months ago,—surrounded Ijy darkness andbowed down by disease,—I had
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. 243 For the past three weeks we have been living on pttir-migan, rabbits, two reindeer, and SHOOTING SEAL. They are fast curing our scurvy. With all thes?resources,—coming to our relief so suddenly too,—hov/can my thoughts turn despairingly to poor Franklinand his crew ? .... Can they have survived ? No man cananswer with certainty; but no man without presump-tion can answer in the negative. If, four months ago,—surrounded Ijy darkness andbowed down by disease,—I had been asked the ques-tion, I would have turned toward the Ijlack hills andthe frozen sea, and responded in sympathy with them. No. But with the return of light a savage peoplecome down upon us, destitute of any Ijut the rudest 244 RESOURCES. appliances of the chase, Avho were fattening on themost wholesome diet of the region, only forty milesfrom our anchorage, while I was denouncing itsscarcity. For Franklin, every thing dej)ends upon locality :but, from what I can see of Arctic exploration thusfar, it would be hard to find a circle of fifty milesdiameter entirely destitute of animal resources. Themost s
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