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Protected: “You may depend on it, there was no lack of fun in that company.”

Posted on August 8, 2019

by Alison Freebairn

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“Beechey Island had been traversed from end to end, every nook and corner examined by many keen and anxious searchers, but not a scrap of writing or despatch from Franklin had been found. The trail was lost, the searchers utterly at fault. Or, rather, I should say, we were like a band of travellers who had come to cross roads where there stood no friendly finger-post to guide us on our way.”

Robert Anstruther Goodsir, 25th December 1880

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