ered Hatteras.

And he gave the proper orders. The _Forward_ lay in a little harbor
sheltered from the north, east, and south winds, about a cable-length
from the shore.

"Mr. Wall," said Hatteras, "you will lower the launch and send six men
to bring coal aboard."

"Yes, sir," answered Wall.

"I am going ashore in the gig with the doctor and the boatswain; Mr.
Shandon, will you go with us?"

"At your orders," answered Shandon.

A few minutes later the doctor, with gun and baskets for any specimens
he might find, took his place in the gig with his companions; ten
minutes later they stepped out on a low, rocky shore.

"Lead the way, Johnson," said Hatteras; "do you remember it?"

"Perfectly, Captain; only here is a monument which I did not expect to
find here."

"That," shouted the doctor, "I know what it is; let's go look at it;
it will tell us of itself why it was put here."

The four men went up to it, and the doctor, baring his head, said,--

"This, my friends, is a monument raised to the memory of Franklin and
his companions."

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In fact, Lady Franklin having, in 1855, sent a tablet of black marble
to Dr. Kane, gave another in 1858 to MacClintock to be placed on
Beechey Island. MacClintock discharged his duty, and placed this
tablet near a funeral pile raised to the memory of Bellot by Sir John
Barrow.

This tablet bore the following inscription:--

TO THE MEMORY OF
FRANKLIN, CROZIER, FITZ-JAMES,
AND ALL THEIR GALLANT BROTHER OFFICERS AND FAITHFUL COMPANIONS
Who have suffered and perished
in the cause of science and the service of their country.
THIS TABLET
Is erected near the spot where they passed their first arctic
Winter,
and whence they issued forth to conquer difficulties or
TO DIE.
It commemorates the grief of their Admiring Countrymen and Friends,
and the anguish, subdued by Faith,
of her who has lost, in the heroic Leader of the Expedition, the
Most Devoted
and Affectionate of Husbands.

"_And so he bringeth them unto the Haven where they would be._"
1855.

This stone, on a lonely shore of these remote regions, touched every
one's heart; the doctor felt the tears rising in his eyes. On the very
spot whence Frankli