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ADRIFT
IN THE ARCTIC ICE PACK
From the History of the First
U. S. Grinnell Expedition in
Search of Sir John Franklin
By ELISHA KENT KANE, M.D.
EDITED BY
HORACE KEPHART
NEW YORK
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
MCMXVI
Copyright, 1915, by
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
All rights reserved.
INTRODUCTION
T was in the summer of 1845 that SirJohn Franklin undertook his fourthvoyage into the Arctic regions, insearch of a northwest passage, and disappearedforever in that icy waste.
Franklin’s two ships, the Erebus and theTerror, were supposed to be provisioned forthree years. When this interval had passedwithout word of the daring navigator therewas grave fear that he had met with disaster.Then began an unparalleled series of searchand relief expeditions, public and private,English and American: five separate onesin 1848, three in 1849, ten in 1850, two in1851, nine in 1852, five in 1853, two in 1854,one in 1855, and one in 1857.
Among