A few days later Kane and his companions were rowing along in their boats, when the mast of a vessel loomed in the distance before them. Peterson burst into sobs in his excitement, and in broken English and Danish exclaimed, "It's the Upernavik oil boat!" Indeed, it was the vessel that goes once a year to Upernavik for a supply of blubber to make oil. Soon the vessel came near enough for the crews to talk to each other. You may be sure that Captain Kane's party wanted to know what had happened during their long absence from home. The first question Kane asked was whether Franklin had been found.
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Upernavik, Greenland.
The sailors told him that some traces of Franklin had been seen, but that it was now supposed that he and all of his companions had perished. This news made Kane very sad, for no one knew better than he what suffering Franklin and his men must have endured.
After learning all that these men could tell him, Kane journeyed on. After another halt for sleep, and another
