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Thread #129573   Message #3008617
Posted By: Artful Codger
16-Oct-10 - 04:16 PM
Thread Name: Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew - 1845
Subject: RE: Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew
@ Charlie Noble: Actually, we have a pretty good idea of where Sir Franklin's bones lie--he was one of the first fatalities once they reached the island proper (their ship was trapped in the ice some miles off the tip). This according to an entry (the last recorded?) by one of the crew, scrawled around the margins of some official form. Inuits also told Rae (I believe) about the death of a "fat man"; Franklin had grown quite corpulent by his 60's.