3-070-990 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Franklin Search Expedition: Lieutenant Schwatka Showing the esquimaux the "Illustrated London News", 1881. 'We have been favoured with permission to make use of the interesting Sketches and Journal prepared by Mr. Henry W. Klutschak...who was a member of the Arctic exploring party under command of Lieutenant Schwatka, of the United States Army, during the overland expedition to the shores of King William's Land, by which some interesting relics of Sir John Franklin and his comrades were lately discovered and brought to New York...The front-page Engraving in our Supplement this week, from one of Mr. Klutschak's Sketches, represents an interview at Cape Daly with some of the Esquimaux Indians, whom Lieutenant Schwatka amused by showing them a few copies of an illustrated newspaper...These people have emigrated from the shores of Repulse Bay, within the last seven or eight years, to gain an easier livelihood, and to profit by the yearly visits of the American whaling-vessels. They are still, however, extremely ignorant and superstitious'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.