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T H E FRANKLIN" E X P E D I T I O N 451
recording the names of those who perished in the Admiralty
expedition under Sir Edward Belcher. There also is placed
a small tahlet to the memory of the lamented Lieutenant
Bellot, of the French Navy, who lost his life in August, 1853,
while engaged in carrying an official despatch from his own
captain to Admiral Belcher, near the entrance of Wellington
Channel.
" After the finding of the relics on Beechey Island, the
eastern commanders largely forgot or overlooked Section v.
of Franklin's Admiralty instructions, who was therehy
urged, after reaching Cape Walker, in proceeding ' from that
point to use every endeavour to penetrate to the southward
and westward, in a course as direct towards Behring's Strait
as the position and extent of the ice or the existence of land
at present unknown may admit.' There can he little doubt
that this action on the part of the leaders of the later
employed search ships, while it added considerably to the
geographical knowledge, yet prevented them from proceeding
in the direction i n which their energetic efforts might
have resulted in the possible rescue of a few survivors, or at
all events, i n an earlier and more satisfactory discovery of
the fate and the recovery of many valuable records of the
lost expedition."
Before giving a brief account of the second Franklin
relics discovery, made by Dr. Rae in the spring of 1854, I
would now refer to his boat voyage of August, 1851, when
he actually got within fifty miles of the spot where the
Erebus and Terror were abandoned i n the ice three years and
four months previously. He unfortunately failed in his
efforts to cross Victoria Strait to K i n g William Land, which
was in sight, else he might then have secured some of the
Franklin records, discovered the stranded ship, and learned
the fate of the party four years earlier than he did. The
Franklin ships and Dr. Rae's boats thus made the nearest
approach by sea to the only practicable North- west passage.
A year later, as already mentioned, Collinson found himself
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| OCR | T H E FRANKLIN" E X P E D I T I O N 451 recording the names of those who perished in the Admiralty expedition under Sir Edward Belcher. There also is placed a small tahlet to the memory of the lamented Lieutenant Bellot, of the French Navy, who lost his life in August, 1853, while engaged in carrying an official despatch from his own captain to Admiral Belcher, near the entrance of Wellington Channel. " After the finding of the relics on Beechey Island, the eastern commanders largely forgot or overlooked Section v. of Franklin's Admiralty instructions, who was therehy urged, after reaching Cape Walker, in proceeding ' from that point to use every endeavour to penetrate to the southward and westward, in a course as direct towards Behring's Strait as the position and extent of the ice or the existence of land at present unknown may admit.' There can he little doubt that this action on the part of the leaders of the later employed search ships, while it added considerably to the geographical knowledge, yet prevented them from proceeding in the direction i n which their energetic efforts might have resulted in the possible rescue of a few survivors, or at all events, i n an earlier and more satisfactory discovery of the fate and the recovery of many valuable records of the lost expedition." Before giving a brief account of the second Franklin relics discovery, made by Dr. Rae in the spring of 1854, I would now refer to his boat voyage of August, 1851, when he actually got within fifty miles of the spot where the Erebus and Terror were abandoned i n the ice three years and four months previously. He unfortunately failed in his efforts to cross Victoria Strait to K i n g William Land, which was in sight, else he might then have secured some of the Franklin records, discovered the stranded ship, and learned the fate of the party four years earlier than he did. The Franklin ships and Dr. Rae's boats thus made the nearest approach by sea to the only practicable North- west passage. A year later, as already mentioned, Collinson found himself |
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