. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. en entirely lost, was, as you arewell aware, that of Sir John Franklin, consisting of the ships Erebus andTerror, the latter commanded by Captain Crozier. The expedition sailedfrom England in May, 1845, and was last seen by a whaler in BaffinsBay, on the 26th of July of the same year. The ships were then mooredto an iceberg, waiting for an opportunity to enter Lancaster Sound. Fora long time the fate of the ships and their crews was a mystery, but it isnow clearly known. The disappearance of the Erebus and Terror, gave an impetus toarctic explo
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. en entirely lost, was, as you arewell aware, that of Sir John Franklin, consisting of the ships Erebus andTerror, the latter commanded by Captain Crozier. The expedition sailedfrom England in May, 1845, and was last seen by a whaler in BaffinsBay, on the 26th of July of the same year. The ships were then mooredto an iceberg, waiting for an opportunity to enter Lancaster Sound. Fora long time the fate of the ships and their crews was a mystery, but it isnow clearly known. The disappearance of the Erebus and Terror, gave an impetus toarctic exploration, as it led to more than twenty search expeditions, someon Government account, and others by private subscriptions. In a singleyear (1850) no less than twelve vessels went to the polar regions in search MCLINTOCKS EXPEDITION. 27 of Sir John Franklin, in addition to several sledging parties and land ex-peditions. No traces of the missing ships and their crews were found, butthe search was continued at various intervals until quite #-,^ RELICS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN S EXPEDITION. The mystery was solved by MClintocks expedition in 1859, whichdiscovered records showing that Franklin died June 11, 1847, and thatthe crews had been forced to abandon the ships, which were crushed bythe ice. The natives reported that the party went southward over the ice,with their boats mounted on sledges, and that many of the men fell anddied on the way. One of the youths asked if the records found by Captain MClintockgave a history of the expedition down to the time the ships were aban-doned. They did not, was the reply. The records consisted of a slip ofpaper enclosed in a tin case. There were two memoranda, one datedMay 2S, 1847, on board the ships, and the other April 25, 1S4S, on the THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. same slip of paper as the other, but in a different handwriting. Thelatter said the ships were abandoned April 22, 1848, having been besetin the ice since September 12,1846. I
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