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T H E F R A N K L I N E X P E D I T I ON 450
ground was s t i l l much covered with snow, while Schwatka
and Gilder's, investigation thereof, i n 1S79, failed to find
them. And yet these records may ultimately perish there
because there is no one i n existence to- day who knows the
exact position of that cache.
The names and status of the officers of the F r a n k l i n Exped
i t i o n when they left England, i n 1845, are surely worthy
of record:
H. il. Ship " Erebua"
Captain— Sir John Franklin, K . C . B.
Commander— James Fitzjames
Lieutenant— Graham Gore
H. P. D. Le Vesconte
James W . Fairholme
Surgeon— Stephen S. Stanley, M . D.
Ice Master— James Read
Paymaster— C. H . Osmer
Asst. Surgeon— H. D. S. Goodsir, M . D.
Second Master— Henry F . Collins
Mate— J. P. Couch
AND
Fifty- four Petty Officers, Mechanics,
Marines, and Able Seamen, & c.
H. M. Skip " Terror"
Captain— F. R. M . Crozier
Lieutenant— Edward Little
George H . Hodgson
John Irving
Surgeon— John S. Peddie, M . D .
Ice Master— Thomas Blanky
Asst. Surgeon— A. Macdonald
Second Master— G. A . MacLean
Clerk in Charge— E. .7. H . Helpman
Mate— Charles F. des Voeux
AND
Fifty- four Petty Officers, Mechanics,
Marines, and Able Seamen, Sec.
" The late A d m i r a l S i r J o h n F r a n k l i n was a brave, able,
and experienced navigator and explorer. He was also a man
of great amiability of character. Sir George Back, an old
and intimate friend, and companion also on both of Frankl
i n ' s overland expeditions to the shores of the Polar Ocean,
used on occasion to relate that it was his custom never to k i ll
a fly, and though often teased by mosquitoes beyond expression,
especially when engaged i n taking astronomical observations,
he would quietly desist from his work and blow the
half- gorged intruder from his hands, remarking that " the
world was wide enough for both." Lord Tennyson, on the
Memorial Tablet erected to F r a n k l i n i n Westminster Abbey,
beautifully chronicles his quiet death:
" Not here : the white North has thy bones ; and thou,
Heroic sailor soul,
Art passing on thy happier voyage now
Toward no Earthly Pole."
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| OCR | T H E F R A N K L I N E X P E D I T I ON 450 ground was s t i l l much covered with snow, while Schwatka and Gilder's, investigation thereof, i n 1S79, failed to find them. And yet these records may ultimately perish there because there is no one i n existence to- day who knows the exact position of that cache. The names and status of the officers of the F r a n k l i n Exped i t i o n when they left England, i n 1845, are surely worthy of record: H. il. Ship " Erebua" Captain— Sir John Franklin, K . C . B. Commander— James Fitzjames Lieutenant— Graham Gore H. P. D. Le Vesconte James W . Fairholme Surgeon— Stephen S. Stanley, M . D. Ice Master— James Read Paymaster— C. H . Osmer Asst. Surgeon— H. D. S. Goodsir, M . D. Second Master— Henry F . Collins Mate— J. P. Couch AND Fifty- four Petty Officers, Mechanics, Marines, and Able Seamen, & c. H. M. Skip " Terror" Captain— F. R. M . Crozier Lieutenant— Edward Little George H . Hodgson John Irving Surgeon— John S. Peddie, M . D . Ice Master— Thomas Blanky Asst. Surgeon— A. Macdonald Second Master— G. A . MacLean Clerk in Charge— E. .7. H . Helpman Mate— Charles F. des Voeux AND Fifty- four Petty Officers, Mechanics, Marines, and Able Seamen, Sec. " The late A d m i r a l S i r J o h n F r a n k l i n was a brave, able, and experienced navigator and explorer. He was also a man of great amiability of character. Sir George Back, an old and intimate friend, and companion also on both of Frankl i n ' s overland expeditions to the shores of the Polar Ocean, used on occasion to relate that it was his custom never to k i ll a fly, and though often teased by mosquitoes beyond expression, especially when engaged i n taking astronomical observations, he would quietly desist from his work and blow the half- gorged intruder from his hands, remarking that " the world was wide enough for both." Lord Tennyson, on the Memorial Tablet erected to F r a n k l i n i n Westminster Abbey, beautifully chronicles his quiet death: " Not here : the white North has thy bones ; and thou, Heroic sailor soul, Art passing on thy happier voyage now Toward no Earthly Pole." |
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