3-070-908 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The American Franklin Search Expedition - ice breaking up, July 24, 1879, (1881). 'Some additional Illustrations of this arduous journey and soj ourn of an exploring party in the Arctic Regions, from the Sketches of Mr. H. W. Klutschak, of Prague, who was one of the party, are engraved for the present Number of our Journal. The expedition, fitted out by the New York Geographical Society, left that place in the summer of 1878, and returned home at the end of last summer. Its overland sledge travelling, from the northern shore of Hudson's Bay to Simpson's Strait, and across that strait to King William's Land, with the long sojourn in that desolate country, occupied eleven months, including the return journey to Hudson's Bay. The party consisted of Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, an officer of the United States army, who was in command; Mr. Gilder, correspondent of the New York Herald; Mr. Klutschak, an artist; Mr. Frank Melms, of Wisconsin; and Joe Eberling, an experienced Arctic traveller, assisted by the Netchillik and other tribes of Esquimaux...The breaking up of the ice so late in the season as July 24 [1879], near Erebus and Terror Bay, on the west coast of King William's Land, where Lieutenant Schwatka's party built a hut and established a temporary depot, is shown in [our] Illustration'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.