# Dickens 1854: The Lost Arctic Voyagers

> Charles Dickens, 1854. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The best-known rejection of Rae's report.

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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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[The Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/franklin-expedition)

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## Cite it

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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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