THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM OF THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION RECORDS SUPPOSEDLY BURIED ON KING WILLIAM ISLAND

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• 1952 . The Polar Record 244 For a detailed discussion of this matter, see R. J. Cyriax, ‘The position of Victory Point, King William Island’, xi, no. 44 (July. A facsimile of the Franklin record is in Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock's, The Voyage of the ‘Fox’, etc. (London, 1881), opp. p.; and in all other editions, 1st. The two 1847 records gave identical information but were not couched in the same terms. For facsimile of the 1847 record to which no additions had been made in 1848, see R. J. Cyriax, ‘The two Franklin expedition records found on King William Island’, Mariner's Mirror, XLIV, no. 3, (August 1958)
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• Op. cit. 300 Hobson found many Franklin expedition relics, including a cairn with no record in it, at Cape Felix. Among the relics were three small tents, bearskins, old clothing, old blanket frocks and fragments of blankets, but M'Clintock's summary of Hobson's report to him (M'Clintock did not visit Cape Felix himself) does not suggest that these articles had been gathered into a heap. pp., 301, 318
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• 1869 . Vol. 131 , 50 – 92 . The worst of his mistakes originated in his conviction, held until he reached King William Island in, that these were survivors of the Franklin expedition. (Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock, op. cit. pp., 51; J. E. Nourse, op. cit. pp. xxii, 107–109, 283, 284, 591, 592; R. J. Cyriax, ‘Two notebooks of C. F. Hall’, Geographical Journal, vol., Part I, pp. 90, March 1965.)
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