Report to the Secretary of the Admiralty and the Hudson's Bay Company on the fate of the Franklin expedition

John Rae, 1854. Further Papers Relative to the Recent Arctic Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin (House of Commons Sessional Papers, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1855), 835–844; text on Canadian Mysteries.

Rae's report, written at York Factory on 1 September 1854, of what Inuit told him in 1854: that a party of about forty white men had died of starvation west of a large river, and that "from the mutilated state of many of the bodies, and the contents of the kettles" they had been driven to cannibalism.

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The first published account of the expedition's end and the first claim of cannibalism.

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Rae, J. (1854). Report to the Secretary of the Admiralty and the Hudson's Bay Company on the fate of the Franklin expedition. Further Papers Relative to the Recent Arctic Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin (House of Commons Sessional Papers, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1855), 835–844; text on Canadian Mysteries. https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/franklin/archive/text/RaeProceedings1854_en.htm

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Rae, John. “Report to the Secretary of the Admiralty and the Hudson's Bay Company on the fate of the Franklin expedition.” Further Papers Relative to the Recent Arctic Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin (House of Commons Sessional Papers, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1855), 835–844; text on Canadian Mysteries (1854).