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A cavalry officer in the US Army, with training in law and
medicine, Frederick Schwatka (1849 92) became interested in the
lost expedition of Sir John Franklin following the search attempts
led by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall. Supported by the
American Geographical Society, Schwatka sailed in 1878 with five
others in search of written records, believed to be deposited in
cairns. A soldier turned journalist, William Henry Gilder (1838
1900) accompanied Schwatka and published this illustrated account
in 1882. Their sledge journey with a party of twelve Inuit was at
that time the longest on record. No documents were found, but the
expedition did discover artefacts and graves of Franklin's men.
Schwatka concluded that no scientific results from Franklin
existed. In his adoption of Inuit techniques for safe travel in the
Arctic, he preceded Vilhjalmur Stefansson by many decades."
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