| | | |surg.), six men. | +-------------------+-----------+---------------------+-----------------+ | Ditto ditto |Success | One and all |Mr. F. S. Crabbe | | | | |(2d master), | | | | |seven men. | +-------------------+-----------+---------------------+-----------------+ To the highly important direction northward up the unknown channel of Byam Martin Island, and which, as Lieut. Aldrich very properly thought, would intercept the course of Franklin, should he, from Wellington Channel, have sailed north about for Behring's Straits, two sledges were told off under that officer:-- +-------------------+-----------+---------------------+-----------------+ | Long-party sledge |Lady | Faithful and firm |Lieut. R. D. | | |Franklin | |Aldrich, 7 men. | +-------------------+-----------+---------------------+-----------------+ | Supporting sledge |Hotspur | In Deo confide |Mr. R. R. Pearse | | | | |(mate), 7 men. | +-------------------+-----------+---------------------+-----------------+ Lastly to Melville Island, on which route a depot, forty miles in advance, had already been placed in the autumn, and renewed in the spring, the following party was appointed: Lieut. M'Clintock, on his reaching the said island, acting as he should judge fit as to despatching Mr. Bradford along the northern shores, whilst he prosecuted the search to and beyond Winter Harbour:--