HI124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jane Franklin, John Franklin, Northwest Passage
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Had the flu before he went on the voyage. Knew about nagivating the ship through the artic. They had to eat their own shoes and caribou munk. Did(cid:374)"t fi(cid:374)d out (cid:373)u(cid:272)h a(cid:271)out the (cid:374)orth (cid:449)est passage. Bullied sailors to go and find him. Had books and school supplies to make them iliterate and teach them how to read and write while their up in the artic. All (cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)ere good sailors, the(cid:455) did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e that ki(cid:374)d of saili(cid:374)g e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e i(cid:374) the (cid:374)orth. Showing the inuit where ships went down. Everyone knew her name, when she wanted something generally it did. Concerned that they knew he had 3 years of supplies then got worried when it got to late 1947. Send ships to go look for them. Started the admiralty for a huge search campaign. She spent a lot of her money and inheritance to look for franklin. He snow shoed all the way to hamilton from toronto.
