The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-07-19

Franklin and his crew. It added to our
knowledge of life in the higher latitudes,
proved that civilized men may accustom
their bodies to the intense cold of a winter
along the SEVENTEEN parallel and their di-
gestive powers to the food which the hardy
natives use and which the region produces
generally In abundance. Franklin was
last heard from In 1916 in Baf6n's bay,
moving westward, with open water to the
south Of his course. At the end of two
years an expedition set out from England
for his relief, followed by others at inter
vals until 1859, when McClintock found
unmistakable evidences that both of
Franklin's ships had been wrecked in the
vicinity of King William Land, and that
very many of the officers and the crew had
persisted. But the skeletons reported by
the natives as having been seen and the
relics from the ships and boats found by
McClintock all appeared in the region in
habited by the Eskimo the year round,
and the belief would not die out of mems
minds that some of tho party, perhaps the
leader among others, still fingered on the
shores OF Baffn's bay or Melville sound.
Besides, King William Land, up to the date
OF Schwatka's search tn 1870, had never
been properly explored. McClintock was
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surface lies buried in snow and ice. In
1879 and again in 1877 relics of the party
had been secured by whalers from fam
lilies of Eskimo met several hundred miles
south Of the scene of the reported disaster,
and these same people gave accounts of
buried relics and documents left by white
men on King William island years before
The last OF whalers to secure trustworthy
data was Captain Barry, and his report
led to the Schwatka expedition. The par
ty left New York in June, 1878, bound for
Repulse bay, point where the Eskimo
hail1ng from King William Land had been
twice encountered. The leader, Lieuten-
ant Frederick Schwatka, was Polish
American, an army officer somewhat dis
t1nguished In the war as well as on the
wild plains. Colonel w. H. Glider, the
second in command, had also been SOL
der. Henry Klutschok, the engineer of
the expedition, had already made an arc
tic trip, and the guide, known as Eskimo
Joe, was a native of the north and a
trained explorer. The remaining member
Of the original crew, Frank Melms, had
served on an arctic whaler @@ :.
The military training of the leaders
gave the undertaking the character of a
campaign and perhaps insured the success
achieved. There was to be no turning
aside for mere adventure, but a patient,
steady plodding on toward the goal, with
no waste of time or energy. All would be
needed in getting food and in traversing
the long, long icy road from Hudson bay
to the shores of Melville sound.
The winter of 1889 the explorers
passed on the north shores of Hudson's
bay, where they landed in August and es-
tablished camp. Dogs and Eskimo driv-
ers and servants of both sexes were added
to the party there, and the explorers en-
gagged in a severe course of training for the
hardships that awaited them by making
long sledge journeys in the severest wealth
er and by starving themselves to point