The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-01 00:00:00

CAPTAIN FRANKLIN'S.

The accounts. which have already appeared in the
public papers, of the progress made by the expedi-
tion towards completing their object, are substan-
tially correct., The travellers have returned in
perfect health, nor has any casualty happened tcp
:Any of the party during the two years and eight
months that have elapsed since they sailed from
this place in February, 1825. The party were
iubject to some little indispositions during the first
winter they spent on the banks of the Great Bear
Lake, owing principally to the nature of their food,
which, to spare the supplies destined for the more
perilous part of the expedition, •in tracing the
shores of an unknown ocean, was procured from the
Lake by Canadian fishermen, who accompanied
them as far as that point. This exclusive fish diet
1-not always in seasiPi—disagreed with seve -al in-
d ufrom tahl
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seasoner.
The lowest point at which the- thermometer stood,
in the first winter, was at 49 deg; below zero of
Fahrenheit, and at 58 deg. in the wintr of 1826:
- The freezing point of quicksilver, aS is liven
known, is from 42 to 43 deg.

-In their progress westward from the mouth ,of
Nlackenzie River they .met with various parties of
Esquimaux; none of these had been in communica-
tion with the Russians, or ever before seen an Euro-
pean, but they must have intercourse and barter
with those tribes which trade with the Russians, for
they were all provided with long knives, and in ()they
respects well armed. Of this, the party under Capt.
Franklin, consisting iii all of 16 persons, had pearly
lad fatal experience, on their first leaving the .month
of Mackenzie River. They ' fell in here with;
numerous body of Esquirnanx—probably not fewer
than five or six hundred, women and children in-
eluded ;—the many valuable articles they saw
aroused the cupidity of the natives so strongly, that
they made reiterated attempts to possess themselves
Of whatever they could lay hands on : a struggle
ensued, which lasted several hours, nor were the tra-
vellers able to protect their property without using
some violence and dealing out many hard blows.
The fate of the expedition hung by a slender thread;
had a shot been fired, or serious injury been received
by any of the natives, their numbers were so superior
that our countrymen would probably have been over-
powered: but fortunately their forbearance was
imitated by the natives, who, though they' aSsunted
threatening attitudes, made no actual use. of their
weapons. Captain Franklin was at one time collared
by three of them, at the same time brandishing; their
knities at him. The Esquimaux, west of Mackenzie
river, are a much finer race of people than those,on
,the eastern shores of the North Atlantic Ocean ;
and their women appeared to our countrymen
re-
markably handsome.-4,iverpoo /r amide-

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CURIOUS.L.OGIC.-1 a trulyco _
" "e!eras'igwnorthiless.-11
heart ; and he who is heartless ?t positively
Devonport Telegraph.
2,:timable man offer a finger,
at Neath. requests us to-
Our correspondent
bo-bers to Franeia's
at a meeting
state, that . of the Su • 3
resolved--
week, it was unanimously
Read-
ing-room, held last
newspaper be kicked out, and
, That the Standard
transmitted to the Editor, to Mark
burnt, and its ashes .
Meeting holds his
in which this beastly pro-
the detestation
the ashes of the illustrious dead-neither
! • say to disturb as
:Pen tin between royalty, talent, nor virtue ;" and
',l€istZiatintilniea Secretary carry the above resolution into effect,
never knew ao_
paying the postage!"--Cambrian.
A number of travellers and tourists,
,when
they alight at an inn, are in the practice of scratching their
names, and the dateaorfty of
their
four, it
itonwtohueldwianpdpoewa'r, had
glass.
Among a multitude of names written on the window of a
ertain inn in the Highlands,: is the following jets &esprit,
7john. (onewhirlsshoiildogfoa patty
to abolish that mode of commemora-
written his own_ name, and the names of his three comrades,
b".
with the month and year in which they had made their
visit. ImMediately under the names, and in a quite dif-
ferent hand (evidently by some 'wag), is inscribed in legible
,!.haraeters.—Note lkne. The whole of the above were
iTfalpsi The reply
still More
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ritsertl:€ll:6u:aigbiel?de,
' in' ;writer'ug es
idn of the
for
istnhaiesmepiet-ts:ctlwei sheep-stealing!
get
characters, ats,
—.False as hell !—Scotsinan.