Produced by Robert Cicconetti, GVB and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org)) Transcriber's notes: There are several inconsistencies in spelling and punctuation in the original. Some corrections have been made for obvious typographical errors; they have been noted individually in the text. All changes made by the transcriber are enumerated in braces, for example {1}; details of corrections and comments are listed at the end of the text. Note that many of the errors were introduced in the third edition, as cross-referencing the second edition has shown. In the original, the "Mc" in Scottish names is given as "M" followed by what looks like a left single quotation mark (Unicode 2018). This has been changed to "Mc" throughout the text; note that the original also contains a few apparently inconsistent uses of "Mac", which have been retained. Specific spellings that differ from their modern versions and have been retained in this text are "Saskatchawan" (modern "Saskatchewan"), "Winipeg" (modern "Winnipeg"), "Esquimaux" (modern "Eskimo") and "musquito" (with one instance of "moscheto", modern "mosquito"). Text in italics in the original is shown between _underlines_. For this text version, the oe-ligature (Unicode 0153) has been rendered as "oe". Footnote 14 in chapter IV contains two transliterations, where [=a] represents Latin small letter a with macron (Unicode 0101) and [=o] stands for Latin small letter o with macron (Unicode 014D). * * * * * NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA, IN THE YEARS 1819-20-21-22. BY JOHN FRANKLIN, CAPT. R.N., F.R.S., M.W.S., AND COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL BATHURST. THIRD EDITION. TWO VOLS.--VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXIV{1}. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES, Northumberland-court. [Illustration: The Connected Discoveries of Captains Ross, Parry, and Franklin in the years 1818, 19, 20, 21, 22 & 23.] TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL BATHURST, K.G., ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE, &c. &c. &c. THE FOLLOWING NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTHERN COAST OF AMERICA, UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER AND UNDER THE AUSPICES OF HIS LORDSHIP, IS BY PERMISSION, INSCRIBED WITH GREAT RESPECT AND GRATITUDE BY THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Page INTRODUCTION ix CHAPTER I.