E. An. Inglefield
Published: 2017-05-25
Total Pages: 270
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Excerpt from A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin: With a Peep Into the Polar Basin Mr. Bardin, the engineer, had been origin ally engaged for the vessel by Captain Beatson, and having superintended the construction of the engines I was very glad to obtain his services. Each of these officers, entering fully with me into the Spirit of our enterprise, agreed to go at wages much below what they would have received in the government service and to each I feel my thanks are due for the manner in which they came forward and offered themselves unreservedly to me in this perilous undertaking. Dr. Sutherland, the surgeon, having been engaged in the previous arctic expedition under Mr. Penny, and before that in two whaling voyages, was, from his experience in the meteor ology of those climes, an invaluable acquisition to our numbers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.