The North-west Passage and the Fate of Sir John FranklinW.P. Jackson, 1860 - 102 pages |
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Admiralty American April Arctic regions arrived August Back's Baffin's Bay Barrow Barrow Strait Beechey Island Behring's Strait Bellot board Her Majesty's boat Boothia Capt Captain Back Captain Buddington Captain Hartstein Captain M'Clintock Captain Parry Captain Ross coast command companions crew Crozier died on board discovered discovery dispatched engaged England Erebus and Terror Esquimaux fate Fish River Fitzjames Franklin Expedition frozen Fury gallant Graham Gore Greenland Harbour Hecla honour Hudson's Bay Company Intrepid JOHN TORRINGTON June Kane King William's Land Lady Franklin Lancaster Sound Lieut Lieutenant Lord M'Clure Majesty's ship Majesty's ship Investigator mariners Melville Island Melville Sound miles navigator Navy North North-West Passage officers party perished Polar Sea Prince Albert relics Resolute returned Royal Sabine sailed seaman shore of King Sir Edward Sir Edward Parry Sir James Ross Sir John Franklin Sir John Ross snow Spitzbergen tion vessel voyages whaler William winter
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Page 80 - In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Page 65 - Avast! nor don't think me a milksop so soft To be taken for trifles aback; For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack!
Page 77 - Most wondrous book ! bright candle of the Lord ! Star of eternity ! the only star By which the bark of man could navigate The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss Securely ! only star which rose on Time, And, on its dark and troubled billows, still, As generation, drifting swiftly by, Succeeded generation, threw a ray Of heaven's own light, and to the hills of God, The eternal hills, pointed the sinner's eye.
Page 53 - There appeared to have been an abundant stock of ammunition, as the powder was emptied in a heap on the ground by the natives out of the kegs or cases containing it, and a quantity of ball or shot was found below high-water mark, having probably been left on the ice close to the beach.
Page 100 - Then are they glad, because they are at rest; and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. 31 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness; and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men!
Page 70 - W., after having ascended Wellington Channel to lat. 77°, and returned by the west side of Cornwallis Island. Sir John Franklin commanding the expedition. All well. Party consisting of 2 officers and 6 men left the ships on Monday 24th May, 1847.
Page 47 - Lieutenant Pim, Herald, Captain Kellett.' This was more inexplicable to M'Clure, as I was the last person he shook hands with in Behring's Straits. He at length found that this solitary stranger was a true Englishman — an angel of light : he says, 'He soon was seen from the ship : they had only one hatchway open, and the crew were fairly jambed there in their endeavour to get up.
Page 71 - June, 1847; and the total loss by deaths in the expedition has been to this date 9 officers and 15 men. (Signed) James Fitzjames, Captain HMS Erebus. (Signed) FRM Crozier, Captain and Senior Officer. and start (on) to-morrow, 26th, for Back's Fish River.
Page 29 - Night at length brought quiet and serious thoughts; and I trust there was not one man among us who did not then express, where it was due, his gratitude for that interposition which had raised us all from a despair which none could now forget, and had brought us from the very borders of a not distant grave, to life, and friends, and civilization.
Page 100 - TO THE MEMORY OF FRANKLIN, CROZIER, FITZJAMES, AND ALL THEIR GALLANT BROTHER OFFICERS AND FAITHFUL COMPANIONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED AND PERISHED IN THE CAUSE OF SCIENCE AND THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY. THIS TABLET IS ERECTED NEAR THE SPOT WHERE THEY PASSED THEIR FIRST ARCTIC WINTER, AND WHENCE THET ISSUED FORTH TO CONQUER DIFFICULTIES OR TO DIE.