THE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.
Sir, —In your interesting description of tho progress: expedition in your issue of March 10, you refer to somo of the previous expeditions sent put, and mention the.namo of Captain CrOzicr:'. 'I" happen to know some of, the history connoctcd with the'said Captain Crozier. You refer to him accompanying Sir f James Boss; now, it may not be ' known that tho said Captain Crozier lost his , lifo.;. in another'- expedition sont out/from "England. T think' ho accompanied Sir John Franklin, though, I am .not .sure (I writo from memory). I think ho commanded tho ship Heckla. This I know: that the'j'ship, himself, and all on board were lost; no.Miraco of them.was ever discovered. When all hope wasi abandoned, ,;'his fejlow-, 'townsmoii erected a monument to his memory in County Down, Ireland, his native place; also in the Parish Church there is a brass tablet to his memory, with the 'following; inscription V ■' ■, ' ■ "Far from this spbt,\ ; in; somo unknown 'but not: 7 imhallow&l resting-placo, lies' all tha , fc_ is mortal 'of Francis Rodon Moira Crozier, " captain, Royal Navy." > ~ : I am, etc., ' . ' •• . THOS. M. MILLIGAN.March 12, 1908. \ : :
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 149, 18 March 1908, Page 4
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189THE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 149, 18 March 1908, Page 4
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