Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records
William H. Gilder
Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records
William H. Gilder · English
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Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records
William H. Gilder · English
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INTRODUCTION. On the 25th of September, 1880, the leading English newspaper published the following words:— "Lieutenant Schwatka has now resolved the last doubts that could have been felt about the fate of the Franklin expedition. He has traced the one untraced ship to its grave beyond the ocean, and cleared the reputation of a harmless people from an undeserved reproach. He has given to the unburied bones of the crews probably the only safeguard against desecration by wandering wild
Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records
William H. Gilder
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