2-631-650 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Cache Destroyed', c1856, (1928). Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857) an American explorer and a medical officer, who was a member of two Arctic expeditions to rescue the explorer Sir John Franklin in 1850–1851 and 1853. Engraving originally from Arctic explorations: The second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, 54, 55, by Elisha Kent Kane. From The Book of Polar Exploration, by E. L. Elias M.A. [George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, London, 1928]