3-070-910 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The American Franklin Search Expedition - scene on Hayes River, Big Bend, May 19, 1879, (1881). 'Some additional Illustrations of this arduous journey and sojourn of an exploring party in the Arctic Regions, from the Sketches of Mr. H. W. Klutschak...are engraved for the present Number of our Journal. The expedition [was] fitted out by the New York Geographical Society...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. Frank Melms, of Wisconsin; and Joe Eberling, an experienced Arctic traveller, assisted by the Netchillik and other tribes of Esquimaux...We also give a view of the scene at the removal of their camp from Sharp's River, Big Bend, in the Hayes River territory, this place being considerably south of Simpson's Strait, and on the mainland of North America, in the peninsula separating Hudson's Bay from the inner waters of the Arctic Region'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.