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The Lost Arctic Voyagers

Charles Dickens, 1854. Household Words X (245), 361, 2 December 1854.

Dickens's two-part reply to Rae, arguing that officers and men of the Royal Navy would not have resorted to cannibalism and that the Inuit informants were not to be believed.

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The best-known rejection of Rae's report.

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Dickens, C. (1854). The Lost Arctic Voyagers. Household Words X (245), 361, 2 December 1854. https://www.djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-x/page-361.html
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