The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-12 00:00:00

IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS.

THE irsiricri ;GE- SIR JOHN FRANKLIN

In addition to what we (M ruing Herald) have
already published, we subjoin the following portion
of some rough notes of the proceedings of Sir James
Reads espeditka in search of Sir John Franklin :

TM last mmouate from the expedition were from Upper-
amid:, oil du Danish °oasis'. The ships started thence
IS the 20th July, and worked up sloes the east oust,
= B poodle Melville eaumont, in Melville Bay, lose. 25 35,
them they croreed over to the middle sea, and dully
got through it, August 19. They then ran down so
road's Bey, the western tout of Balla's Bay, the settle-
mat M the natives, sad whets the whalers inavally vide,
end strived there 93rd August. No one landed hem, bat
the ships mead= Moog as far u Foamiest= Mount,
remind there en the Nth; cod Lieutenant
mud the mums= of the Investigator went ashore.
Here they accidentally dboovered, snider a cairn or
Matem, a bottle hot by Parry, beariug an inwriptioo,
" Hide alai Griper," of which they took possession,
snot= another cairn, and deposited a ripper cylinder, with
iskessation of the objects of the expeetioo. The ships
then proved= towards Ceps York, up Barrow's Straits, oa
the wasters shore, where all wee clear water, no ice what-
ever beteg vist4le. A Cup, York a beam: art flatimat
were erected, as sylit.ders d. posited. From this
Tees les
was sees, cascading right across Prince B,,gents Ialst;1
seasetruntly the ships stood toward, the north, for Cape
FeUfout, upon the north there of Barrow's Straits; early
is September, and ea the Ph of that asseth, stood acme to
Leopold, the pleas of trade swiss; end here getting =tin-
gled is the fee, were swept pass the Wand, bat subeetisently
got Wee and catered Puri Leopold, a specious harbour, with
euellent grofeadlop and deep water, Mb September, 1548
Hide were immediately deposited three mouths' prosisions
toy esch uhip, es shore at Whaler's Point, at the 'atrium of
the hubour. The harbour at that time was perfectly clear

of im.
The prmisions were deposited with all dispatch, under
the inigameion that the eatzetliden woad start the nest
months( ; hat en the lIM Ste sliptieted appearance of the
young los media inimaseizemsendpti=habillty of being
Emma in at • mere , Sir James ROM
was induced to delay his departure, and ultimately to RAG
this =chorus his winter quieten, this being the most
eligible puha, of departure I. the ensuing spring. In the
enures of a.ter days Bit James's predictions were verified ;
the harbsur continued to freeze over, altetnately freezing
and clearirg until about the 94th, when the ice became
settled.
The crew were now employed to cat a canal forty feet
wide, leading in towards the north-east side of the batbour,
and putt cud, by What, r's Feint, from any teary pressure
of ice setting in from the inlet, or Emote.) Straits. This
basboar was found to be most commodious end safe, with
good ueptn of water sad sandy bottom. The ice was p. r-
fectly flat and lutes over with a* plain a surface u the
Serpentine L. January. The ships were moored abreast
each otb.r, about 200 yards apart. As soon as they were
trues in, they were housed over from the forecastle to the
mizeitmast, sad the anchors were weighed and stowed.
Toe aims then commenced building a wall of snow seven
lest high from one ship to the other, to facilitate communi-
cation, and the out thing was the erecting of au observatory
for each ship for magnetic observations. They were com-
p
ned entirely ot mow with plates of ice for the windows.
They were 111 feet high land., end built of snow bricks owe
loot thick and two hat long, cut out with a Gutless end well
equated ehd trimmed, these little bum disp'sqing tasteful,
!saw, and in some instances fentestie forms of atchitec•
Lure. the wall olcommutdeation required great attention,
from the accumulation of snow. The sun was net seen from
the 9th November until the 9th of February from the
ship, but from the top of a bill, N.B. Cape Leopold, a sight
was caught of him so early as the 26tn January. During
• the lone, mating., from October till May, schools were
formed slang the midstip part of the lower decks, which
• were well attended by Me young men, who were instructed:
In leading, whim, and arithmetic, oa board the Enterptise,
• by the c.eric ; and a youngster from Greenwich school,
• named Grunsell, wooed class wittiness.' taught the papaw
• nae.gati a. Many of the acholits mad. pregr.ss in
their stories during the six isoothe. Ample time was allowed
• us the crews of both shim to most each other, and genes of
• football and other lumina relieved the monotony which

surrounded them.
Derlag the whole of ti at dreary winter the only other
liven animals seen were the white loses. Tzars were not
ellowen to be shot, but as many were taken alive as
could be tripped, and shout 40 were theme sent away with
a .pper Ludas' round their oaks, upon which was stamped
the name of the ships, and the localities of the depots of prm
visions, &e. As it wee well known that tat= Axes trail an
lawel.oo distance, this measure was resorted to with the view
making them the possible medium of acquainting the
inie.in3r ...nits with the means taken for their relief and sue.
=or. Toe foxes were caught in a barrel converted into a
leur.trap, eau to show the intensity of th cold, it may bs
stated that the pour little animals is ends .routing to escape,
Mica attempted to gas+ the iron bars. lama, is many eases,
4as toms= adhered to the Wu, and were frozen elf, when
they MKS killed from motives of humanity. The loses were
heselseily denunliasted Twopenny Postmen." The them
mweessee at this time was about 15 below zero; but the 83 1-
Truer stove apparatus, which onset:ad admirably well.
always kept the lower dicks ate temperature of between 55
sad 60 cl. gives.
Chris= mday and New Teat', day were kept as seasons
of tun and jollity. Double allowance of spirits and peal-
eitas were • reed out, and every ons f..reil sumptuously.
The health of the queen was drunk with devoted lo3alty
sad enthusiasm by the galiant lithe band " absent friends,'
and ewsetbearts stud wives," were not IoTrIttOIS ; end the
dace and sing enliven. d the festivities. For a few bout.
the outward world wee &Thome in the joyous realieetion of
the comforts and Imprint, in home.
The crews daring the ulster were also employed in making
seek sad =rut= apparatus fur travelling in the spring,
endgame panes were employed in laying down gravel 00
the Ice, to facilitate the cutting el the passage out i t the ships
Item the harbour at the proper season. The gravel, wk.=
mistaken troy the shore on sledges, wee laid so as to absorb
the sea's rays, lib eh. acting upon the ice, predisposed it to
leas used to melt away. This work very much emoted the
sedrous task of cuttiog • oral oat of the harbour of 60 feet
wide, and two miles aye • =if long. These and othe r
doling winter eotramiast acclimated the men, and inured
them to gamin the priestly= wh eh they subs, qua any en-
anetwerect in the searching expeditions. All Iceland Leopold
Harbour nothing was seen but snow, rocks 1,100 fest high
boasted on each side, sad a narrow low ridge enclosed the
harbour northward. Time were very few ioeberas semi
roes this point.
Biz James Bess brim to send out detached parties at the
early part of the month of April. From the Enterprise Sir
James wee the first to eo higaseh sad with Mr. Cheyne and a
party of 10 men, left the ship, end proceeded with • gaaatity
et bread, preserved meats, In I, and skins, fifteen lades to
the tr inward. Ne ww aceompaaied by Lieut. Barnard and
a 1 arty from the lavesilgator, the missions beii.g earned
on two sledges They penetrated r for as Cape Hurd.
Leather party from both ships, seder Litatenand libinson
(Ineestigeter) sad Lieutenant Brown (Enterprise), and
Mr. Adams, eminent surgeon (Investigatur), were de-
spatched on similar serum. sod proceeded about 15
mike soutitereed. They deposited their preivisioas about
llimiLa north el Wwio Bey. Bath parties suffered severely
Item this ezpidition, belts most of them blinded by the snow
It was arranged that the principal ezpeditinn should
have the stip.= the 15th Hey. Tile meriting did not give
any indication of fine weather, for the wind New high, and
the snow was a foot and a half deep. About six o'clock,
however, is the maths, as worker samierated, and the
parties imed with three hearty theses frogs the dups. It
was eompoeed of Sir Jams Bess, Lieut. llCClintoek, sad 12
*eases of the Enterprise ; the int lieutenant, Mr.
31`Clitre having been left to =argil the ship. They
were absent exactly forty days. erred with them
preserved meats, with supplies of per , biscuit, and run,
sad also their napping apparatus, which twisted of tam
=alias to spread out on the snow to prevent the beat of
their bodies from thawing it, buffalo ropes to lay upon, their
blanket bags is which they essoard themes Ives sad
✓assersalm Mears to serve as counterpane.; they ale*
Wtw sisigas„ Biz men to sash, sad two teen. They
minding to the westward, from Cage Clarence around the
rest as fez as Cape Bunny, about 100 miles spec the shore
of
Noah Somerset. Here as we have already statedithz
'mod the coast, which had up le that time usezkie
trending to the masthead. They purred that course these
140 miles further, at the extreme point of which they erected
a mire, and deposited glitters therein; with the atrial
sorter, dating them 6th Jane, 1849. They had by this
time shortened their proviake, and the men were so
knocked op that Sr James was rolactaaly compelled to no.
turn. From the extreme point they reedited they could see
the coast southward for forty
.miles farther. The ice in
this direction wee premed up to some parts to the height
of between 60 and 60 feet. They shot, in this expedition,
eight ptarmigan and a new ducks. Oa the western coast
they saw the remeants of an Begulmath hut, and the re.
Hoe of a deer's antlers, which were supposed to have been
there for at lest a century, and from the appearance of
the ice is this direction there was no possibility of say
ships having
_penetrated in that direction—at all events
that season. Every one was on the sick-list, with the excep-
tion of JUG= E'Clintoek. Maly were also frost bitten. A
fatigue party frees the Investigator, under Captain Bird,
with Dr. Robertson, aosompaand this expedition for five
days, sad then relented, all of 'whom were pretty well
harked up. In the course of this journey the whole party
VON diewpd by ea immense bear. Brain walked holdiy up
to them, and was ocly checked S. his advisee by an attempt
to Sleet hem. Of the =the ambers( gar levelled, how-
ever, them!, Ire arm that west awes Last. ll'Clintock's.
The halt Nth elms, bat the old geatlemaa did not rem to
ear sank thorn ; he merely seratthed his bead with his
Pews =se within 15 yards, sad thee toned hie bosh upon
them, walked a, with a sag onsampthess sir. The
teach of liked whisk marked his retinmerat In the mew
ahewtl thea be the wounds& The keine party presented
just sr kw asks mane side of Oars Reasell at out 40
miles kith ke digs, smd Mused, after supplying the other
party with Sisk stale of perils'.
The Meg enst of Lieut. Boiler, of the In-
vestigator asi eight mast They pramoded down=
the western Els of Prises Barnes fair, trig they
at Fury Poing. Bars they hosed the previsleas et the Feel,
all in a good rats of preservation ; and Sir Joke Bose'e
(Somerset Bones) strain, in geed anger. A tens WO
semi aside, 4 whisk they lit leas Arts, and here
Illbeialia Robber was third to have two of Me
pithy, whoever too meek fatigued to p any further. With
the remainder he pushed es to Orenwell Bay, abaft 26 mike
distant, where he meted a ails, aid &pelted the anal
contents. By order Mao alias, he destroyed all the gun-
powder at Fury Bash.