Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-12-13

Captain Kerr, so anxiusly expected by
Lady Franklin, arrived in the ofing, at
.Kirkaldy, on Wednesday evening. She
reports IL whales and Is bottle-noses-
lilo tons. At the north side Of Pounds
bay Captain Kerr came in contact with an
intelligent looking Esquimaux, from whom
he learned the particulars which he COM
municated to Captain Parker, Of the True
love, of Hull; and which have excited so
much interest, and are now so well known
through the newspapers. The Esqui-
maux told Captain Kerr that he had seen
four ships mot whalers) in Lancaster
Sound, holding up four Of his fingers;
two, he said, had been there and at anoth-
.r place, which he pointed out in his own
rude way on the chart, for four seasons;
the other two ships (evidently Capt.
Ross') one winter.
On being interrogated whether he saw
them himself or got the information from
others he pointed 10 his eyes as proof that
he had himself seen the ships but could
not say whether the people under Captain
Ross had ever come in contact with those
under Captain Franklin, the distance be-
tween them being some 260 or 800 miles.
On being asked if the ships were in good
condition, he said they were in as good a
state as the Chief,ain was, and not in the
least broken. The "captains," he said
were all alive, and so were the crew !;
and, moreover, that they had meat in plen-
ty, consisting of salmon, deer flesh Cor
beef, the word for both being the same,
so at least Captain Kerr understood the
words and signs of the man.
He also said, when asked why the ship
did not leave their present position, that
they could not, as they were completely
packed up in the ice. Three days after
ward the same man came again on board
of the Chieltain, and distinctly reiterated
all that he had before mentioned, which
left the impression on Captain Kerr's mind
that what he had heard Of both the expe-
ditions was entitled to considerable de-
gree of credit. The Admiralty, we un-
derstand have already intimated TO the
Captain that his presence will be speedily
required at London. Lady Franklin has
had several interviews with Captain Kerr
since his arrival.-Lady Franklin arrived
in Edinburgh on Monday. Edinburgh
Witness.
Almost simultaneously on the arrival of
the whaler Cheiftain, above mentioned, we
notice that of Sir James Ross and his two
ships. dispatched in search of Sir John
Franklin, and Sir John Richardson, who
were overland on the same errand. The
London papers give the following account
of the Ross expedition
Sir James, in the autumn Of last wear,
Sept. IL, penetrated little to the west
ward of Leopard Island, when the ships
were obliged to take up their winter quar-
tiers at Fort Leopold entrance of Prince
Regents Inlet.) In the spring of this
year Sir James Ross, with party travers-
edthe north coast Of north Somerset, be-
yond Capes Renn.ll, Clifford and Bunny,
and finding the land tread nearly due south,
he followed it TO that part of the western
coast, opposite Kerswell Bay, the total
distance traversed being about 500 miles.
1t had been his intention to trace the
land down 10 the magnetic pole, where he
had been previously, but owing to some of
our party getting knocked up Fl ON fatigue
he was obliged to abandon the attempt. and
TO return 10 the ships. He had determine
ed also to despatch a party toward Cape
Walker, the place named in Sir John
Franklin's instructions, whence he was
to steer southwest course but this in
tention he was also obliged to forego on
account Of the great difficulty of dragging
the disabled men on the sledges, the foot
party not being equal to the severe work.
Another detachment was sent down
Prince Regents Inlet, as far as the spot
at which the provisions of the Fury were
left; they reached it, and found them in
perfect state Of preservation. This party
then crossed over 10 the opposite side Of
Port Bowen, and returned across the inlet
TO the ships. A third party went from
the ships, across Behring's Strait to Cape
Hurd, examining that shore; they also
endeavored to push up the Wellington
Strait, but they found il this time impen-
etrably blocked with ice.
Finding no vestige of any kind, and no
fagstaffs or marks, the probability is sug-
gested that Sir John Franklin's ships pas
sed through toward Cape Walker without
any obstruction.
Sir James Ross having 'wintered at
Leopold Island, and searched all round in
every direction, now cut canal of two
miles and a half in length, with the inten-
ton of continuing the search, and proceed
ing to the westward of Melville Island
but Immediately after getting out of this
canal they unfortunately got into foe of
ice, in which they became frozen up, and
thus were carried bodily with the ice, at
the rate Of about eight miles day, through
Lancaster Sound, and out beyond Ponds
Bay, much after the same manner in which
Backs ship the Terror was drified off
Southampton Island in 1887. Sir James
Ross ships, as may easily be supposed,
were in the greatest peril, and but for
meeting gale of wind, which happily broke
up the field of ice and set them at liberty,
the most serious consequences might have
been MISREPRESENTATION as the immense mass
was drifting down on the west side of
Baflin's Bay the ships ran a great risk of
being carried upon the bergs, and wreck
ed at Cumberland Island.
AS it was, however, the gale and the
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