3-070-915 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The American Franklin Search Expedition: Cape Herschel, 1881. 'Some remaining Illustrations, from the Sketches by Mr. H. W. Klutschak, who accompanied the expedition of 1878-1880, sent out by the New York Geographical Society in search of relics and monuments of the ill-fated Arctic exploring party commanded by Sir John Franklin in 1847, appear in this Number of our Journal... [Also shown are] monuments erected by Lieutenant Schwatka's party to the memory of Sir John Franklin's comrades who had perished there...The American party...travelled with several dog-sledges, for the conveyance of their needful stores, accompanied by a numerous band of Netchillik Esquimaux, and passed two winters in that dreary region...the second winter being occupied by their return journey, across Adelaide Peninsula, and over Back's River and Wager River, to the place from which they had started, arriving in the first week of March, 1880. This overland winter journey was a feat that had not been attempted by preceding Arctic travellers, and the experiences of Lieutenant Schwatka and his companions...were of more than usual interest... Cape Herschel...[was] passed in the march of four hundred miles northward from Hudson's Bay to Simpson's Strait'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.