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Although no direct contact with Franklin's forces was achieved, Rae later interviewed the Inuit of the region and obtained credible accounts that the desperate members of Franklin's team had resorted to cannibalism.Details about the ordering and the construction of the 4 boats used on the expedition is recorded by John Richardson in Arctic Searching ExpeditionвЂ¦, 2 volumes, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1851, pp. Part of a three-pronged rescue effort devised by the British Admiralty this expedition was led overland by Sir John Richardson and John Rae, the team exploring the accessible areas along Franklin's proposed route near the Mackenzie and Coppermine rivers.

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The boats to be finished in all respects, in a workmanlike manner, and to be such as shall be approved of by the officers of the dockyardвЂ™, the boats to be delivered to store by, 1 page with integral blank leaf (watermark date 1846), together with a second single sheet giving dimensions and scantlings for two similar boats to be built for the Expedition by Mr Camper, 1 page a third sheet (paper watermark date 1839), giving summary technical details of all 4 boats, plus вЂDraught of WaterвЂ™ and details of 4 tool chests and their contents, including axe (1), adze (1), hand vice (2, oil stone (1), hemp (7.5 lbs), hand saw files (6), small chisels (8), compasses (2), etc., 2 pages with integral blank, all folio, plus a fourth sheet titled вЂThe Arctic boats are numbered 1, 2, 3 & 4 inside their SternpostsвЂ™ with brief listings of each below, signed by J Whettam and addressed to W Rice, 1 page, 4to, the last two items with a few rough pencil calculations and some spotting, loosely contained in slightly frayed old wrapping (watermark date 1819) with a later manuscript note about the contents, dated May 1900Qty: (4)Footnote: The RaeвЂ“Richardson Arctic expedition of 1848 was an early British effort to determine the fate of the lost Franklin Polar Expedition of 1845. Original manuscript instructions for the building of 4 boats used on the Rae-Richardson Arctic Expedition of 1848, the first a document dated at Portsmouth Yard, 23 April 1847, giving details of вЂDimensions and scantlings of two boats to be built by Contract for the Arctic ExpeditionвЂ™ at Portsmouth Dockyard, then giving a list of materials and sizes with further text below, вЂ™The boats to be built of the very best seasoned materials, as light as possible, consistent with strength, and to be fitted according to the usage of the dockyard, or as shall be pointed out by the surveying officer the fastenings to be copper throughout.

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