Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1869 — The Sir John Franklin Document in California. [ARTICLE]

The Sir John Franklin Document in California.

Wo have recipvet] tjie below coramunicafionby express *o*ll a party in San Buenarcntura, Whq iiigns.lus name, and is vouched for by a respectable firm in this city as an honest, trustworthy man. The communication reads as follows: “NEWS QF, SIR JOHN FRAKLIN. “ Found op the neacli &t,Si»n Buppaventura, on the 80tli of August last, a document measuring 13 by 10 inches,;much mutilated, requesting the finder to forward it to the Secretary of tpe Admirality at Lon* don, or to tlie British Consul at the nearest port. Tljis; request is printed in six commercial languages. The margin and every vacant portion of it lias been filled up witli writing relating to Sir John Franklin and his party, and was evidently cast to the waves in latitude 09 i deg. 87 min. 42 sec., and longitude 83 deg. 4 min. 5. sec. It- gives an account of the desertion °f the slops Erebus and Terror. At the time of the desertion the party numbered 105 souls, under the command of F. R. M. Crozier, and succeeded in getting as far south as the latitude and longitude mentioned above. Here they found relics of the late Sir John Ross. The documcht states that Sir John Franklin and party wintered at Beecby Island in 1846-7, in dfeg. 43 min. 28 see., and long, 91 dcg.?s, nun, J 5 sec., having doauindcfl ‘WtilingtocL (3aianfaelitbJkiti77 John ‘Franklin died onuherWifh'Ait’ißOie, 1847. It contains accounts of many interesting incidents connected with the expedition, wlneh>wilhl)ejli>4k known hereafter. The document was found by Junes Daly, of tho firm ofDalyi* Rodgers^ttunb*r merchants, San Buenaventura' .;. " San Buenaventura; Sept. 8,1809. That the document referred to above may have been fniuidjßftlie beach at San Buenaventura, in J ooltfc or otherwise, is entirely probable-; the next question ,relate&!t6 Its! authenticity fife vAlw. So ‘far asils oqk*nts'.ls joiir .cpiMespondent, thpy tell us nothing bus wpat McClintock’s Voyage 'discovered 1 as 'Jong ago as in 1859, in- relation to the Abandonment of the Erebus andr jFerror, except that the recdufe twbitiiy Stt. McClintock put the date of the abandonment in April, 1848, itßdiflld hot iajr Btti'‘J¥lm - liatt filed. siate i' theWkishflCijimil ilfJttiiaUiity; aUtl'transcribe Ha iftHl^fttqnle.rfof, Meanwhile wc give nis staiemeJitior what it is worth. Possibly some iugcnidffthrag has taken a liint from Hugo’s IS Homme yui Bit, the plot of wlikbdtuns on the discovery of a a wonderful revelation, years after it had been thrown inti) tho sen My a ifripfeindicr^ti join Gotag Honw, ‘ifi(l tfie End or thie Journey. V i./i

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