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Title: Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal;
or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir
John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51

Author: Sherard Osborn

Release Date: March 21, 2008 [EBook #24891]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note: In the line

"We sailed by Fairl[=e]e, by Beach[=e]y, and Dung[)e]ness,"

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STRAY LEAVES

FROM

AN ARCTIC JOURNAL;

OR,

Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions,

IN SEARCH OF

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION,

IN THE YEARS 1850-51.

BY LIEUT. SHERARD OSBORN,

COMMANDING H.M.S. VESSEL, "PIONEER."

_DEDICATED TO LADY FRANKLIN._

New York:

GEORGE P. PUTNAM, 10 PARK PLACE

M. DCCC. LII.

DEDICATION.

Accept, my dear Lady Franklin, these few pages, as the warm and honest
tribute of deserved admiration for yourself and estimable niece, Miss
Sophia Cracroft--admiration, which I delight in, in common with
thousands, that such as you are Englishwomen; and pride, that a
sailor's wife should so nobly have fulfilled her duty; for, if, on the
one hand, the name of Sir John Franklin, that chief "_sans peur et sans
reproche_," is dearly associated with our recollections of the honours
won in the ice-bound regions of the Pole, your names are not the less
so, with the noble efforts made to rescue, or solve the fate of our
missing countrymen.

That those sacrifices, those untiring exertions, that zeal which has
never wavered, that hope so steadfast, since it is that of an
Englishwoman for her husband, that patience under misconstruction, that
forgiveness for the sneer of jealousy