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Title: An island story; a child's history of England
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth), 1867-1941
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Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company (Edinburgh, Printed by T. and A. Constable

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the course Sir John had gone, but theycould find no trace of him. Here and there sailors landedon the bare, white shores which they passed, and leftsupplies of food under great heaps of stones or cairns asthey are called. They also left letters telling which waytheir ships had gone. This they did hoping that some ofFranklins men might pass that way and find the foodand letters. The sailors also caught white foxes whichrun about wild in these cold countries. Round the necksof these foxes they put copper collars on which wereengraved directions how to find the ships and the storesof food. Tlie foxes were then let loose again, in the hopethat some of them might find their way to the Terrorand the Erebus and bring comfort and encouragement toSir John and his men. But nothing was of any use. No sign of Franklin andhis brave men could be found, although expedition afterexpedition was sent out. At one time as many as fifteenships were looking for Franklin, but each one failed. ifXf1?-ti>.
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the ships WEBB CALLED THE TERROR AND THE EREBUS THE LAND OF SNOW 489 At last, after about twelve years, the searchers wererewarded. They found a cairn in which was a tin can con-taining a paper which luid been put there by one of SirJohns men. This paper told how at last the North-WestPassage had been discovered; how Sir John had died afew days later, and how as the ships were stuck fast inthe ice and could not get through to the sea beyond, themen had at last left them and started southward onsledges. That was all. None of the men ever reached home again. They alldied of cold and hunger, and here and there along theway they had gone their skeletons were found bleachedand white. The people who live in the cold, far north are calledEskimos. When they were questioned, some of themremembered having seen white men travelling southwardwith a sledge. But they were very thin, said one oldwoman, they fell down and died as they walked. The Eskimos had among them silver spoons and forkswhich th

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