The New York herald., 1920-01-04
STEFANSSQN FINDS
80 YEAR OLD CACHE
IN ARCTIC TRAGEDY
Documents, Food and Cloth
ing Were Left in 1850 to Aid
lll-Fated Franklin.

or interest to all who have heard the
call OF the North and the lure of explora-
tion is the announcement that Vilhjalmur
stefansson found the abandoned cache
of Sir Leopold McClintock, commander of
the Intrepid, in the Arctic after lapse
Of more than half a century. 1t was Sir
Leopold McClintock, in command of the
ship Intrepid, who found traces Of the
voyage of that unfortunate explorer Sir
John Franklin. He built cache on Mil
Vile Island, presumably between 1850 ana
1854, when in guest of tidings of Sir John
Franklin and the members of his ill
fated expedition in the Arctic.
The McClintock cache was located BY
Stefansson, who reports that he found
everything in almost as good condition as
when placed there in 1858. Articles of
clothing he found particularly well pre-
served and much better in quality than
the clothing Of today, and the food and
supplies left in the Arctic cache by Com
mander McClintock and his men also were
well preserved, despite the severe weather
known to prevail in the Arctic regions.
Documents and list OF the contents of
a cache built in the Far North by Com
mander McClintoclS and other data also
were found in Captain Joseph Il. Bernier,
! in command of the Arctic" expedition
Of 190S-1909 A tablet erected on Dealy
Island by Captain Kellett and Commander
McClintock in 1S52-1S53, whose vessels were
lost. also was found by Captain Bernier
and re-erected, with his own tablet, on
Parry's Rock, commemorating the an
nextiug of the Arctic Archipelago in
1909 On the tablet found by Captain Ber-
nier were the names of the ships navi-
gated by the explorers-''H. M. s. Reso-
Ipte, Henry Kellett Esq, c. B.. Capt.
H. NJ. S. V. Intrepid, f. L. McClintock,
Esq, Comm. Wintered 1S52-5S S. 81 e.
I(true). Door of Depot House with direc-
tion given). Record will be found in
house."
Lieutenant McClintock," says Captain
Bernier, who was commander of the In
Itrepid and second in command to Captain
Kellett, early showed his great activity by
making sledge journeys Of a. hazardous
nature across Melville Island from the To-
cality in which the Resolute and Intrepid
were frozen in near eDaly Island. The
Itracings made by McCIintock around the
shores OF Melville Island and Prince Pat
rick Island, on foot, added many hundreds
of miles to the soast surveyed under Bel
Icher and Kellett. The cairns established
by him between 1852 and 1854 are mentioned
in his reports with the papers found al
Dealy Island.
| 1t is probably one Of these cairns that
was discovered by Stefansson and built by
IMcClintock more than half century ago
| Continuing, Captain Bernier says of Nc
IClintock:-"His subsequent career in navi-
ating the waters In Lady Franlllin's yacht
Fox of Peel Sound Regent Inlet, Bellot
Strait, King William Island and around
Montreal Island and Boothia peninsula are
well known. Is brilliant achievements
and discovery of definite information re-
lgarding the fate OF Franklin point to him
as the most fortunate OF all voyagers who
pursued the most remarkable search
known in the history of navigation"
| One of the documents left by McClintocl