The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art

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Excerpt from The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art: Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements of the Past Year, In Mechanics and the Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Electricity, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany, Geology and Mineralogy, Meteorology and AstronomyAfter more than eleven months' sta early spring journeys were commenced on February 17th, 1869, when Captain oun carried a depot of provisions across Franklin Strait, whilst I went southwar to the magnetic pole, to meet the natives, and obtain, if possible, some information. I was accompanied by the interpreter, Mr. Petersen, and some seamen, we took with us two Old sledges. On the 28th of Februar when near Cape Victoria, we met with a small party of natives, who readily uilt us a large snow hut, and spent the night in it with us. We were subsequently visited by about 45 individuals, and during the ion: one we remained amongst them, we obtained many relics of the lost crews, ¿ m the information that managers 8 gm was embed in the xqq' ma sunk Q.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.