Winnipeg, Sept. 9.
'A wireless message states that! Major Burwash, the Canadian Government explorer, with a pilot. has completed an aeroplane trip to King Williany Island, This is the first time the island has.been visited by a white man singe the ill-fated Sir John Frank-
Tin expedition §3 years ago, Major Burwash left For Murray a month ago.
Sir John Franklin, English Rear-Admiral and explores, was! Yom in 1786, While he was at ation was deeply walk with a companion by the sea-side and determined to become a sailor. In the hope of dissuading his father sent him' on a voyage to Liebon in a_merehantman but. the experience only excited him Zurther and on his return he entered as a midshipman on board the Pi phemws, He took part in the battle of Copenhagen in 1801.
Under the direction of Captain Flinders, an able scientific officer, he took part in the exploration and snapping of the coasts of Australia where he acquired a correctness of astronomical observation and sur-eying skill which proved valuable in.his future career, He turned his ratiention to the scientific branch of his profession and when in 1518 the Ciscovery of a North-West passage to the Pacific became of national interest he was given command of the Trent in the Arctic expedition. This: voyage brought Franklin to the notice of the leading scientific men-of London and they recognized his fitness for the command of such an enterprise, In 1819 hie was placed in command of an expedition to zrceeed overland from the Hudson Bay to the shores of the Arctic Sea. Lieutenant Franklin and his party arrived at the depot of' the Hudson's Bay Company in 1829, The return party was marked: ly suffering and the tragic death of one of the menibers of the party, The narrative of this expedition was ence a classic of travel.
Between the year 1819 and 1827 Lieutenant Franklin added 1,200 of coast-line to the American, continent, These exertions were appreciated and he was knighted in 1829, In 1845 Sir John Franklin fou that there was to be a renewal of polar research, Ho was offered the command of an expedition for the discovery of a North-West passage to the Pacific, and he accepted. There were volunteers from all lasses, from whom were selected a Yody of officers conspicuous for talent and energy. 'The crews were carefully chosen, some of them ing been in the whaling service. Food' and clothing for three waa supplied and every appliance then known was furnished to the expedition, Franklin's Expedition, consisting of the Erebus and Terr 129 officers and mien, and a tran!
Fort ship with additional stores, sailed from Greenhithe on May 19, 1845, The ships were last seen by 'a whaler near the entrance of Lan-easter Sound, two months later, and it was not until 14 years later that their subsequent movements. became known, Tu 1847, although there was no great anxiety as to the fate of the expedition, preparations were made for: the sending of relief. A. year! pasted and, no news was heard. therefore the search began in earnest. Expedition after was sent to find the explorers, These expeditions resulted in the Giscovory of thousands of miles of now Tard within the Arctic regions, the development of the system of sledge travelling, and the a second North-West Passage in 1850, In' 1851 the first traces of the missing graves was discovered fa few scattered articles beside three graves en Beschey Island. No furthor tidings were obtained unfit 1854 when an expedition of the Hudson's Bay Company was told by an Eskimo that in 1850 forty white meni.were soon dragging a boat} along the shore of King William's Leland, and that later the bodies of tha whole party were discovered by! natives. In consequence of that formation: a party in canoes, under Messrs. Andersen and Stewart, was! sent down-the Great Fish River in 1855." They obtained from the Etkimo many articles which had
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