Near Cape Riley the Americans fell in with a portion of an English Expedition, and there also the _Rescue_, left behind in the gale in Lancaster Sound, overtook the _Advance_. There was Captain Penny with the _Sophia_ and _Lady Franklin_; the veteran Sir John Ross, with the _Felix_, and Commodore Austin, with the _Resolute_ steamer. Together the navigators of both nations explored the coast at and near Cape Riley, and on the 27th they saw in a cove on the shore of Beechy Island, or Beechy Cape, on the east side of the entrance to Wellington Channel, unmistakable evidence that Sir John Franklin and his companions were there in April, 1846. There they found many articles known to belong to the British Navy, and some that were the property of the _Erebus_ and _Terror_, the ships under the command of Sir John. There lay, bleached to the whiteness of the surrounding snow, a piece of _canvas_, with the name of the _Terror_, marked upon it with indestructible charcoal. It was very faint, yet perfectly legible. Near it was a _guide board_, lying flat upon its face, having been prostrated by the wind. It had evidently been used to direct exploring parties to the vessels, or, rather, to the encampment on shore. The board was pine, thirteen inches in length and six and a half in breadth, and nailed to a boarding pike eight feet in length. It is supposed that the sudden opening of the ice, caused Sir John to depart hastily, and that in so doing, this pike and its board were left behind. They also found a large number of _tin canisters_, such as are used for packing meats for a sea voyage; an _anvil block_; remnants of clothing, which evinced, by numerous patches and their threadbare character, that they had been worn as long as the owners could keep them on; the remains of an _India rubber glove_, lined with wool; some old _sacks_; a _cask_, or tub, partly filled with charcoal, and an unfinished _rope-mat_, which, like other fibrous fabrics, was bleached white. [Illustration: ANVIL BLOCK. GUIDE BOARD.] But the most interesting, and at the same time most melancholy traces of the navigators, were _three graves_, in a little sheltered cove, each with a board at the head, bearing the name of the sleeper below. These inscriptions testify positively when Sir John and his companions were there. The board at the head of the grave on the left has the following inscription: "Sacred to the memory of JOHN TORRINGTON, who departed this life, January 1st, A. D., 1846, on board her Majesty's ship _Terror_, aged 20 years." On the centre one--"Sacred to the memory of JOHN HARTNELL, A. B., of her Majesty's ship _Erebus_; died, January 4th, 1846, aged 25 years. 'Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Consider your ways:' Haggai, chap. i. v. 7." On the right--"Sacred to the memory of W. BRAINE, R. M., of her Majesty's ship _Erebus_, who died April 3d, 1846, aged 32 years. 'Choose you this day whom you will serve:' Joshua, chap. xxiv., part of the 15th verse."