Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen John.Sir Franklin's Disaster

The Forward passed directly through James.Ross Strait, but it was not all smooth sailing. Pots and gunpowder were used, and the crew felt extremely tired. Fortunately, the temperature was tolerable, and it was better than James.It was thirty degrees Fahrenheit high in Rose's day, and the thermometer read two degrees Celsius. Saturday passed Cape Felix, one of the medium-sized islands in the northern seas, at the northern end of King Guillaume's domain. The crew felt a strong and painful pressure, and they cast curious but mournful glances at the archipelago they sailed along. At last he came to this land of King Guillaume, the theater where the most terrible tragedies of modern times are staged!A few nautical miles to the west was the wreck of the Edupos and the Terror.

The sailors of the March were well aware that their purpose in their trip was to retrieve Admiral Franklin and the gains, but they were ignorant of the harrowing details of the disaster.But as the doctor traced the course of the ship on the map, many of them, Bell, Bourdain, Simpson, approached him, talked to him, and soon their companions followed, driven by a peculiar curiosity. , and during this time the ship raced forward, and the coast, with its bays, capes, and headlands, passed before us like a gigantic panorama. Hatteras, striding swiftly up the poop, with the doctor standing on deck, surrounded by most of the crew, knew the delicate situation, and knew that a speech on such an occasion would be helpful. What's the use, he continued Johnson's opening conversation:

You know, my friends, what Franklin was like when he started out, a midshipman like Cook and Nelson, a young man who took part in the great voyages, and decided to devote himself in 1845 to the search for the Northwest Passage , he commanded the Eternalpus and the Terror.These two tried and tested ships in 1840 in James.Ross has just completed an expedition to the South Pole.There were seventy officers and sailors aboard Franklin's Utopus.Fitz-James as the captain, Gore.Leviscond is the lieutenant, Deveau, Sarjean, and Cush are the bosun, Stanley is the surgeon, there are sixty-eight men on the Terror, the captain Crozier, the lieutenants are Hoggedson Jr. and Owen , the boatswains were Holsby and Thomas, and the surgeon was Peddie.You can read in the bays, capes, straits, headlands, fjords, and islands of these lands the names of most unfortunates, none of whom ever saw his country again!There were one hundred and thirty-eight in all, and we know that Franklin's last letters were sent from Disko Island on July 12, 1845.I hope, he said, sailing for Lancaster Sound tonight, what has happened since he set out from Disko Bay?The captains of the whalers Prince of Wales and Enterprise were last seen in Melville Sound, and from that day on they were never heard from again.We can, however, follow Franklin westward as he enters Lancaster and Barrow Straits to Bizzie Island, where he wintered in 1845-1846.

But how do people know such details?Bell the carpenter asked. Known from three graves found on the island during the Austin Expedition in 1850.Three of Franklin's sailors are buried in these graves.Then Lieutenant Hobson of the Fox found a document dated April 25, 1848.From these documents we know that after wintering, the Edupos and the Terror went up the Wellington Strait to the seventy-seventh latitude, but they did not continue northward. Obviously this road was impassable, so they had to go south This is their mistake!Says a firm voice that salvation is in the North. Everyone turns away.Leaning over the poop rail, Hatteras issued a dire warning to his crew.

There was no doubt, the doctor went on, that Franklin's intention was to return to the American coast, but on this unfortunate road encountered a storm, and on September 12, 1846, the two ships were a few miles northwest of Cape Felix. There was an ice floe at Haili, and they were taken all the way to the north, north and west of Cape Victory. Here, the doctor pointed to a point on the sea and said, what happened during these nineteen months?What have they done, these unfortunate people?No doubt they surveyed the adjacent area, doing anything to survive, for the Admiral is a firm and powerful man!if he fails

That's because his crew might have betrayed him, Hatteras muffled. The sailors dared not raise their eyes, these words hit their hearts hard. In short, this fatal document also tells us that John.Sir Franklin died of overwork on June 11, 1847.Let us remember him!He took off his hat and said. The listener silently imitates him. What has become of these unfortunate souls without a leader during these ten months?They remained on board until April, 1848, when they decided to leave. Of the 138, 105 remained, and 33 died!Captain Crozier and Fitz.James put up a sign at Victory Corner, where they deposited the final papers.Behold, my friends, we are passing this cape!You can still see remnants of this sign, right here in John.This remote cape to which Ross came in 1831!This is Jenny.Point Franklin!This is Cape Franklin!This is Cape Les Conde!This is the Gulf of Edupos, where you can still find a dinghy built from the wreck of a ship, on a sledge!Also found there were silver spoons, lots of ammunition, chocolates, tea, bibles!Because the 105 people who survived headed towards the Big Fish River under the leadership of Captain Crozier!Where can they go?Will they make it to Hudson Bay?How many survived?How have they been since the last departure?

What became of them, I will tell you!Hatteras forcefully said, Indeed, they tried to think of Hudson's Bay, and they were divided into many teams!Indeed, they set out south!Indeed, in 1854, Dr. Ray wrote in a letter, that in 1850 the Eskimos encountered a party of forty men on the domain of King Guillaume, hunting manatees, Walking up and down, dragging a boat, emaciated, pale, and miserable.Afterwards they found thirty dead bodies on land, five on a nearby island, some half buried, the rest left there without a grave, some under capsized boats, some under fragments of tents, Here is an officer, with his telescope slung over his shoulder, and his rifle at his side, farthest from the cauldron, in which some dreadful food remains!Upon hearing this, the Admiralty asked the regiment stationed at Hudson's Bay to send its best men to the place of the accident.They descended the Buck River to its mouth.They went to Montreal Island, Markonos Island, Point Ogle.But nothing!All these unfortunate people died of famine, died of misery, died of starvation, trying to prolong their lives by eating their own kind!This is how they ended up on the southbound road, filled with their mutilated bodies!all right!Do you want to follow in their footsteps?

Hatteras' shocking voice, frenetic movements, and passionate appearance produced an effect that cannot be described.The crew, excited by the proximity of this unfortunate region, exclaimed in unison: north!north! all right!north!There to be rescued and honored!north!God made a choice for us!The wind has changed!The road is clear!ready to go! The sailors rushed to their work stations; the glacier tunnel was melting, and the Forward was advancing rapidly, starting the horsepower to Mike.Clintock Strait sailed. Hatteras was justified in anticipating clearer seas, and he followed the route Franklin had set in advance; he sailed along the east coast of Prince of Wales's domain, which was then fixed, but the other side was still to come. unknown.Apparently the break-up of the ice pack to the south was due to the constriction of the east, for the strait appeared to be completely unimpeded: it was possible for the Vampire to gain lost time; she ran at full speed, and on the 14th of June she passed the Austrian Spear Bay and remote locations reached during the 1851 voyage.There are still a lot of ice floes in the channel, but the Forward is no longer in danger of being blocked by ice floes.