The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-04


ais own mind h. always thought that r. was posi-
| BE they m,ght be. Sir Francis Beaufort was per
| 'ecty right in thinking that the Esquinaux wcah
on let .hl NJ escape. II they got hold Of doctor
" a blacksmith he (Mr Kipg) was oertzi, they
would net. rsey knew too we'll the value OF the
IN edcins man." or the msn who worked in iroo,
if they had fallen into the hands OF the Esqu
marx, ana possessed, only the comIaon ''Dous' to
ccrvirce them oftheir utility, there was DO. the
slightest 10 despair that hey stl alive
(hear) The object OF the meeting was % invite dr.
cuss,n He s,gcs himself up as aHEses to be fred
at and would be Dlost hapHto hear any
kind % opposition. Now, with respect 10
the Hudson Bay Conpsnys expedition 80
he Grea. Fish River, nobody knew better
the !IJ drogrspber of the Admiralty whether that
could be called search. He (Dr. King) denied
that there was apys evidence whatever tina. Cap
IAN Anderson. OF the HUDSON Bay Company, lad
be never could have talked OF low swsmpy aylaRds,
in ~hioh the remainder OF Franklns party Had
httn washed away, ana their bodies carried 81 Nso
The sea- Why, it could be proved distinctly thai
there was 10 de- and no one could speak more POI
sitively on that subject than he could Pemmic2n,
which vas a composition very much like graves anu
chocolate, was nos washed away from Montreal
leland even after five years had chased. Nothing
earth would convince him that ii those forty men
had died upOn the spO, indicated no record wOuid
have peen found OF them. He believed that trey
descended by another portion Of the river sorlt
Dos, essed the main feature Of all the North American
rivers, aid formed iderabe delta az its mouth
" was his positive belief tina. Captain Anderson
Dtvsr yeathed the Polar Sea by the great outlet
Of the Fish river. He had gone 70 some other
YoiDt. and had never visited the cache discovered
by Sims,n. fhe searsh beng at length confined 20
very limited area they ought N pursue 10; and
did not the plan that Lieutenant PIN and himself
saO sasmtsted 70 the Admiralty contain clemens
o. suscess sucb other plan had ever continued
10 nSs q'rfe evident that no land expedition or
expedition, by itself, would be attended with suc
cess Believing thai IL this expedition we're sent
ont y Tsna put at re-: this Question forever he 50
Lieutenant PIN said he took his ssend on the
broad ground that l3s public servants were lost IN
the Polar regions; that many efforts had been made
10 find 'hem that by rh3 merest accident q cine ~
,ntir whweahou's had been at last obtained; and
then, and I'LL then, all further efforts had been
abandoned. Every one knew we had obtained traces
OF Franklin for which we had paid $4,000. Those
Braces pointed to circumscribed space, within
which the ships themselves would probobly he foant,
for they must bear in mind that they had actually
searched in every other direction but this precise ID
caty. and all their Arctic explorers agreed that it
could he closely approached by severrl routes Why,
then, did they hesitate? They offered q reward for
trace of Franklin, they bad paid fl0 900 for this
trace their experience in the polar seas atesed thai
the trace could be followed 10 successful issue with
less than the usual risk and, strange to say they
stopped short when the object was within their
grasp In bis opinion they ough. to settle all doubt
about The missing expedition. Surely national honor
Gale for It, independently Of the extreme impocy
in the bene1ceDt care Of their codntrymen az
home. He knew the habits OF sailors, and
be did not hesitate to say that he had al
Ways had and still entertained strong conviction
that some of our unfortunate countrymen might
he still sliye and living with the Esquimaux They
knew that Dr. Kane, that intrepid and distinguished
American traveller, was on the point OF throwing
himself on the mercy Of the natives had he NOT
proydentia)y escaped from his icy prison; and they
also fnew that Dease and SimsOn had orders IN
case Of necessity to winter with these people. he
felt that IL only their fellow-countrymen would
stretch out helping hand, some of them might yet
be restored 70 their friends and home. He entirely
agreed with DR.. King that an unsupported exped
ton by way OF Barrow's Straits must fail; that an
unsupported expedition down the Great Fish river
must fail: hut that combined effort by Barow's
Straits and Great Fish river contained within itself
clements Of success such as had not hitherto been
tried. He had the utmost confidence that DR.. King
would use every possible eyertion b. reach the mag
netic pole, and he Lieutenant Pm) would strain
every nerve to meet him there. With this unity OF
ruIpose never before brought to bear in prosecuting
the search, he felt tonvinced Of successful result
(Cheers)
DR.. BRBTHoLD SEEuASN, naturalist and historian
Of the voyage of the Herald in search of the Frank
lin expedition, by Behring's Strait said he was one
of those who thought another search Tor traces Of
Sir John Franklin and his party desirable, and he
beheld with satisfaction the plan submitted for that
purpose by DIR. King and Lieutenant PIN. II was
fortunate for the enterprise that both DIR. King and
Lieutenant PIN were men whose services nedd only
be alluded to in order to obtain for their plan the
most earnest consideration. Both were experienced
Arctic travellers. DR., King was the physician Who
accompanied Sir George Back down the Great Fish
river in search Of Sir John RoSsi party and who in
that memorable expedition collected such vast stores
Of important Information, that science would ever
have reason to he grateful TO him for the extension
Of its boundaries. When anxiety about the fate of
Franklin began 10 be felt 1t DR.. King who sub
mitted plan which, had il at once been adopted,
would probably have insured the safety OF most II
not all of the members of the missing expedition "a
the search would have been conducted in the very
spot where subsequent discoveries had shown that
FIanklin's party bad ut least in part, persisted.
Duiirg the winter Of ls49 Lieutenant PIN perform
ed most arduoos journey from kotzebne 70 Norton
Sound and back again, the details OF which had for
tunately been preserved to show what he had gone
through. and would 20 through again. II called
upon. On the return OF their ship to England in
1861, none but negative evidence of Franklin's
whereabouts bad been obtained, and II was then the
opinion of those who took comprehensive view OF
the subject that In order TO make the ssarch COM
pete. not only the northern shores Of America, but
also tb0se Of Asia ought to be explored. PIN a.
eIce volunteered TO accomplish the latter, but was
rar6ed az spy. whcn the last Arctic expedition ]
was fitted out PIN toned the Resolute, and II was
he who had the good fortune TO find Clurc sparty
and thus become the link which connected the East
ern With the Western discoveries. Hear, hear
Mr.. McCoRMcK thought that the strongest plea
that could now be advanced in favor Of further
search must rest chiefly upon the proba i,ty of the
discovery Of records left by the forlorn hope party of
the forty men seen by the Esquins-x at the mouth
Of the Great Fish River. That the ships themselves
will be found there, any survivors OF their crews,
he did not for one moment entertain the NEST dis
iant hope. lie believed tnat the forty men who APP
pear to have reached tne Great Fish River with
boat came down Wellington Channel, and revisit
ing their old winter quarters on their route TO the
southwark found the boat and provisions there.
There was every reason 10 believe that the smaller
tent circles If not ALL that he saw at the entrance
IN Exo and Inv had
ment Of atravelling party watching for favorable
opportunity of crossing Barrow's Strait Regents
Inlet and Pcel's Sound being about equi-
distant from Beechey Island, either chan
nels would take them 70 the estuary Of the Great
Fish River, where the relics were found. In pro
scouting the search, an exploring party down this
river, as 40 strongly and ably urged by DIR. King,
was of paramount importance, and DR.. Kings I'M
firing and sin exertions for 20 many years
past 20 direct attention TO that fatal stream were
worthy nf the hirhcaf Admiration. The rnntc he