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450 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN
of 1853, while making preparations to quit, by one half or
more of the crew proceeding On the ice towards Cape Spencer
i( 550 miles distant) and the others by boat to the Hudson's
Bay posts on the Mackenzie, Captain Bedford Pirn, of Sir
Edward Belcher's Eastern Search squadron, providentially
turned up. It is quite safe to say that Pirn's judgment,
• determination and exertions averted another ' Eranklin'
disaster. Later, Belcher ordered the abandonment of the
Investigator, and its crew, travelling by sledges on the ice of
Barrow Strait, was the first that made this or any other
North- west passage. For this important discovery, however,
the British Government awarded the sum of ten thousand
pounds sterling to McClure ( who was also knighted)
and his crew. His voyage geographically was a grand success,
but as an Arctic search it must be classed as a failure.
" Not until six years after Sir John Franklin had entered
Lancaster Sound, however, did any of the many search parties
make their first discovery of traces and relics of the
missing navigators. On the 23rd of August, 1851, Captain
Ommaney observed distinct signs of the presence of Europeans
on Beechey Island and Cape Riley, which was changed
to certainty four days later when Captain Penny found at
the former place three graves of men belonging to the Erebus
and Terror, who had died between January and April, 1846.
Seven years later McClintock ( afterwards Admiral Sir
Leopold, who recently died at a great age) ascertained that
before laying up there for the winter they had in their very
first season out from England accomplished more in the way
of discovery and navigation than had been attained by any
previous or sticeeeding expedition."
It may be here stated that the Lady Franklin Memorial
Tablet erected by McClintock on Beechey Island in August,
1858, " near the spot where they ( Sir John and his companions)
passed their first Arctic winter, and whence they issued
forth to conquer difficulties or to die," has been placed upon
the raised square in the centre of which stands the cenotaph
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| OCR | 450 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN of 1853, while making preparations to quit, by one half or more of the crew proceeding On the ice towards Cape Spencer i( 550 miles distant) and the others by boat to the Hudson's Bay posts on the Mackenzie, Captain Bedford Pirn, of Sir Edward Belcher's Eastern Search squadron, providentially turned up. It is quite safe to say that Pirn's judgment, • determination and exertions averted another ' Eranklin' disaster. Later, Belcher ordered the abandonment of the Investigator, and its crew, travelling by sledges on the ice of Barrow Strait, was the first that made this or any other North- west passage. For this important discovery, however, the British Government awarded the sum of ten thousand pounds sterling to McClure ( who was also knighted) and his crew. His voyage geographically was a grand success, but as an Arctic search it must be classed as a failure. " Not until six years after Sir John Franklin had entered Lancaster Sound, however, did any of the many search parties make their first discovery of traces and relics of the missing navigators. On the 23rd of August, 1851, Captain Ommaney observed distinct signs of the presence of Europeans on Beechey Island and Cape Riley, which was changed to certainty four days later when Captain Penny found at the former place three graves of men belonging to the Erebus and Terror, who had died between January and April, 1846. Seven years later McClintock ( afterwards Admiral Sir Leopold, who recently died at a great age) ascertained that before laying up there for the winter they had in their very first season out from England accomplished more in the way of discovery and navigation than had been attained by any previous or sticeeeding expedition." It may be here stated that the Lady Franklin Memorial Tablet erected by McClintock on Beechey Island in August, 1858, " near the spot where they ( Sir John and his companions) passed their first Arctic winter, and whence they issued forth to conquer difficulties or to die," has been placed upon the raised square in the centre of which stands the cenotaph |
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