WITH AN APPENDIX ON THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
OF NORTH AMERICA.

BY SIR JOHN RICHARDSON, C.B., F.R.S.

INSPECTOR OF NAVAL HOSPITALS AND FLEETS,

ETC. ETC. ETC.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

1851.
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NOTICE.

In the Indian names which occur in the following narrative, u is to be sounded like oo, in "moon;" yu as "yule," or like "you ;" and i as in " ravine."

LONDON:

SPOTTISWOODES and SHAW,

New-street-Square.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Page

Route assigned to the Expedition under command of Sir

John Franklin. Names of the Officers. Erebus and

Terror. Date of its sailing. Last Letters. Sir John

Franklin's last Official Letter. Last Sight of the Expe-

dition. Sir John Ross proposes a Search. Discussion

of Various Opinions offered respecting the Fate of the

Expedition. Plans of Search adopted. Main Objects

of the Overland Searching Expedition. Instructions

from the Admiralty

CHAP. II.

Overland Searching Expedition. Routes through the In-

terior. Hudson's Bay Ships. Pemican. Boats. Boat

Party leaves England. Arrives at Winter Quarters.

Volunteers. Mr. John Rae appointed to the Expedition.

The Author and Mr. Rae sail from England. Land at

New York. Proceed to Montreal and La Chine. Canoe-

men. Saut Ste. Marie. Voyage to the North. Reach

Cumberland House

CHAP. III.

Pine Island Lake. Silurian Strata. Sturgeon River.

Progress of Spring. Beaver Lake. Isle à la Crosse

Brigade. Ridge River. Native Schoolmaster and his

Family. Two Kinds of Sturgeon. Native Medicines.

Bald Eagles. Pelicans. Black-Bellied and Cayenne

Terns. Cranes. Frog Portage. Missinipi or Church-

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