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INTRODUCTION.
the name of Henry Grinnell; and, as the echoes floated on the air, our good ship, now under sail, bore me rapidly away. Thus I left my country to try and accomplish that object upon which I had set my heart—namely, the solving of the yet unsettled mystery connected with the lost Franklin Expedition.
I may as well say here that, throughout my narrative, all references to the Appendix will be noted by small numerals, indicating the explanatory notes.
