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I don't mean to say the dumb beast spoke, but his looks were so beseeching just the way if you was tied up to the halbert to be whipped, you'd look at the general. "'Me? said M'Clure. "'Yes, you or anybody else, said the man. 'Well, said he, 'I told him I wouldn't shoot him, I'de give him one chance for his life, but if he escaped he'd be deaf for ever afterwards.
"Well, the scream of that are orse, and the two shots the dragoon and I exchanged, saved my life, for I saw a man and a woman making right straight for us. It was Betty, Sir, God bless her, and Sergeant M'Clure. The owling she sot up, when she saw me, was dreadful to ear, Sir.
The journey made by Sir Robert M'Clure and his men, after abandoning their ship, had proved that such a water-way existed, but the knowledge of the northern regions acquired in the attempt to find the survivors of the Erebus and the Terror made it clear that the passage was valueless, not merely for commerce, but even for the uses of exploration.
"'The stroke of the sun be anged! said I; 'it's not in my ead this time it's in the other end of me. "'Oh dear, dear! said Betty; 'two such marks as them, and you so handsome too! Oh dear, dear! "Poor old soul! it's a way she had of trying to come round me. "'Where is it? said M'Clure. "'In the calf of my leg, said I.
Some had engaged in conflict with the natives in endeavoring to secure food, but being weak from hunger were unsuccessful. Of the one hundred and five men who accompanied Franklin not one was ever found alive. During the year 1850 the problem of the northwest passage was solved by Captains M'Clure, Collinson, and Killet.
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