New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-26

ibeir snow hnus.s finished they would take off
their nocoesrs. W ich had several poes of blanket
between them aud the foot, take out these pieces snd
plsce them next their hearts TO dry On about half 4
dozen occasous tbey took kettles u into bed wit
them - get Gtle water Ia duck by me ing IT..
His were so fond Il smoking tha; he bad to have
a little snow house for himself gs he dd not smoke.
TIE temperature 10 his house was q degree OF two
below zero Vhile in theirs ii Was only about twelve
below TIE fre-zir poiu'. TueS made passages u' d
tie snow between their hoGses. during the whole
Writer noi oi them warned them-eis-s by tire
srd ,rt they were perfectly healthy all the tine.
TIE ra.iors 5noEed ~ the iIuisons Bay Company
in The C lstiiudos was eight pJdnds OF ouflo neat
per man ds.iy. The Esqulmsu1 did eat more Than
white ucu found themselves eJupcueitH A'ter a
very shot tine they could have eaten talo~
candle without anything ct i. Toey got Into their
spox. houses aboGt the erd Of OctVber. There were
two kinds OF reindeer in The uorrh ore w"eireIudeer
ard the other barren grounc-reIndeer Mr hso eI-
libitei head Of the lst-r With bfaTcalng horns,
brarches NEE ire over the forehead 10 spaie-llke
form. he remembered hesrirg Prof. Owens desc ant
Up.n head Of this reindeer. Tne Professor poLted
ou. this form of the V1se prov-iots ot nature
Fl rstIC the animal to clear the snow from be fJod
with is borns. lie tDr. Rae llughed. A friend
asksd him whv He arswrred tbat he hsd q" par
'cular reason p that the decr cast bis horns 10
November, and had none IN the Winter The
feet only used fer removing the susS
During The whole Winter they saw not sIng.e
Esqnimspy. They had school in which he Taught
in lve mouths one Of the heIfbreeds to read, write
anc figure well enough TO keep journal aud mark
the Thermometer in his iDr. Raesl absence. In the
Sun mer they started on tba survey Of Booths Felix
They went up the peninsula to tine 18th degree ot
latitude On their return they met party Of E-qu-
naux who tod them that they had heard Of party
Of white men. who had starved great way to the
north ard wet; they could fix upon 10 locs!iiy The
only objects he got from them were a knife and
gold hat. band from Of the oacers hats.
He offered tbem 81 that he had 20 guide hm 10 the
place but they would rot unjcrtakej'. For i've days
they pesr the magnetic pole tha, the needle
was useless. They then met another party OF
EsquiDsux, from whom Re obtained spoon and fork,
tie fork with the letters T. NC. on 1t
Tley iud the same story, sud trey msde
the di-tarce ten or twelve days Joarney OF,
about 100 niles. He then went back 10 the winter
quarters where three of the men had been LEFT,
and he found that the Esquimau1 had been there in
numbers. but had attempted to take tinng from
them His impression from this fact was they Old not
murder Franklin So polite were they that they would
leave the bouse at meal time OF their aecorc.
Biz u,en who had been leit, told him that they were
afraid that party If whites had been starved. The
Es9uimaux had described him DR.. Rae so that they
knew il not him. The Esqu,riuGx had Did these
men ai by signs that this party had been eating each
other, and that some Of them had been stripped and
others ad two three cults OF clothes on.
He questioned them carefully ard repeateily
ahou. this through an excellent Interpreter. Tue
pames ofthe places they spoke Of al familiar to
lin; Sir John Ross hid given them. VIVA, be learned
was, tha. party Of EsquiGernx were of killing seal
They said that they 10 t"nr at them held up their
hardsto show how many white men pass by with
sledees. When they che EsquimauxD had flushed
seslirg they followed the tracks of the rledges until
they eau 10 low point Of aod, where they found
.ct of bodes in very wasted coDdit'on. He arrived
at the date by questioning them very closely As to
where they wntcIsd the last w ntcr and the Winter
before thai, and 40 until they 10 h. Ii they
saw these bodies, they all conoided u telling him
that il iour years beture. This was in 1854 They
They said tbai the white people bad killed geese be-
Il. <.-lr . H. rftnda Ear
he concluded hst they must have died in June, 1854.
Sir John left England in ls45. Ile had only three
years PROVISIONS which could not be made to last tour
years in that climate without extensive additions. No
e1ye dion had been able to stay four years in high
latitude without getting tho sourvy They nast have
teen reduced TO sailing down fowl for the Winter OF
1880. which would acceera this disease very ma
trlaiy. They must have been very weak from It IN
the Summer Of iS.O The Esquinaux agreed IN saving
that there wes old man III the party; so Sir John
.iust have gone before. He asked the Esquimaux
Why they did not feed them but they ans ~ered that
they we're almost st.rsnd thcmeves. StnrV",,oa, nc
found carried or the EsCumaux at times. Sixty OF
his old friends died OF il ia one season. Wncn the
sea animals shifted their ground. they were partou-
lsrly liable to this On this occasion tire cordrer of
the party strspged hInEelf Of the frJse
himself to Death, aud two young glris, whom he saw
again maintained themselves by eating Others OF the
parry. The EsqHinauz were caunbals only 10 keep
off starvation. They would not even eat their dogs,
uDlees compelled 10.
nNtn NiI ufn Oec"uc cmuJidtcc, ~ "V't'i
affect their nerves so that they could Dot shoot we'll
be- hud had enough of TINT to know it, effect He bo.
hevei that the EsquinauI would have aided them had
they been able. II wonld have been very hazardous
for him to attempt to reach this pl ace where the
bodies we're seen. lie &C uld not rel have spent an.
other Winter there without provsions So he rcturpod
t York Factory and took the vessel for England. ~
was not surprising ii at when he returned and searched
the place there sho1ld he no traces let of the bodes
the point was siouslly covered with water. which
would have swept them cf at some time ddriog the
Wiuters and Summers which had elapsed. They fonnd
piece Of one Of the boats Of the Terror, one of Sir
Johns ships and piece Of wood with Stanley" on
IT, which be traced to the man 10 England, of whom
Mr.. Stanley bought il.
The thanks OF the assemblage were given TO Dr.
Fac, nrc complimentary remarks were made by Or.
Uavks the Presiaent Of the Society.