THE FROZEN NORTH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 246, 21 October 1904, Page 3

THE FROZEN NORTH.

DISCOVERY OF THE GRAVE OF FRANKLIN. LONDON, Oct. 19. The Daily Mail's Ottawa correspondent states that Captain Low, under of the Neptune expedition, found five graves on Beccbey ismnd, and that the inscriptions showed two were those of Franklin and ono of his men, while three others beiong to members of a later expedition. The Neptune expedition, so called from the shijj engaged, was sent by the Canadian Government last year to Hudson Bay, for purposes of scientific research. It has evidently extended its sphere of operations very considerably to have reached Beecljey Island, which lies at tjie south-west comer of North Devon Land, in Lancaster Sound. Sir John Franklin sailed on his fourth Polar expedition on May ISRh, 1845, in command of the Erebus and Terror. On the 36tfc of July following the vessels were seen in Melville Bay, but from that time no direct tidings were received of the expedition. Search expeditions sent out an 1848, 1850, and 1854 failed to find any traces of the lost explorers, but in 1859 an expedition under Captain McLintock, after two years' work, discovered, at Point Victotry, i n |C ing Wllliam . s Land, a document which had been deposited thirteen years before, and gave the .latest details of the illlatfcd expedition. According to writL'J? .f mar « in . dated eleven months after the main part of the" document Sir j ohn £ died o n j une 11th, 1847, at the age years. 01 the 180 jod men forming the expedition the * reporte<i thftt „, £ bv th»? T C bod;es wcre f°"nd reHcs Pank ' S ' "*«» V *'-">W