The record of Schwatka's expedition is written in these pages.
Much of it has already been published in detached letters by the
'New York Herald', which engaged the author to act as its
correspondent during the journey. Other hands than his have
reduced it to its present shape, for his restless energy has
again driven him toward the North, and has enlisted him among
the crew of the 'Rodgers', which is seeking the lost
'Jeannette'. with the bark 'A. Houghton' before Marble Island,
another set of Esquimaux visited him, and while looking at his
logbook said that the great white man who had been among them
many years before had kept a similar book, and having told him
this one of them gave him a spoon engraved with the word
"Franklin." This was enough to arrest the attention and stir the
adventurous spirit of Lieutenant Schwatka. He became eager to
organize a search party and find the cairn where the papers were
supposed to be still buried. He obtained leave of absence, went
to New York, and proposed to Judge Dal