ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXII, Issue 13574, 21 October 1904, Page 5

ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

RELICS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION. United Pres» Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 19. The "Daily Mail's" Ottawa correspondent stete s that Captain Low, the leader of the Neptune expedition, found five graves on Beechy Island. The inscriptions showed that two were those of Franklin or some of his men. The three others belong to a later expedition. (Sir John Franklin, with Captains Crozier and Fitzjames, in H.M. ships Erebus and Terror (carcying in all 138 persons), sailed on his third Arctic expedition of discovery and survey, from Greenhithe, on May 19, lohs. Their protracted absence- caused intense anxiety, and several expeditions were sent from England and elsewhere in search cf them, and coals, provisions, clothing and other necessaries were deposited in various places in the Arctic seas by the British and American Governments, by Lady Franklin, and by numerous private persons. The Truelove, Captain Parker, which arrived at Hull on October 4, 1849, from Davis'6 Straits, brought intelligence, not afterwards confirmed, that the natives had seen Sir John Franklin's ships in the previous March, frozen up by the ice in Prince Regent's Inlet. Other accounts wore equally illusory. The British Gove, vment, on March ■V, 1850, offered a reward of to any party of any country that should render eilicicnt assistance to the crews of the missing ships. Sir John's first winter quarters were found at Beechy Island by Captains Ommanney and Penny.)