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Meanwhile two other members of the expedition, dis-
. by the time the party had been avvay, followed the
easel tracks through the thick mist, heard Hallgren shouting
rom the ice floe, and roused the camp. The expedition boat
as buriedunder hard snow and had to be dug out and dragged
y hand for nearly two miles to the water. vvith one man in
he boat cutting a way through the ice and another rowing,
he boat was brought to the ice floe and Hallgren was
escued. He had then been on the ice floe for thirteen hours
n wet clothes, with no cap or gloves, in sub-zero weather~
nd apparently suffered no frost bite or other ill effects.
The Northern Administration and Lands Branch of the
Department of Resources and Development has recently received
a set of three microfilms of journals belonging to the late
Admiral Sir F.L. MtClintock. These microfilms were sènt to
the Branch by Mr. H.F. 1ftClintock of Ardee, Co. Louth, Eire,
son of AdmiraI M'Clintock. The films are as follows:
(1) Arctic Journal kept by Dr. Scott, R.N. while
serving in H.M.S. Intrepid under Cdr. F.L.
M'Clintock, R.N., 1852-4.
(2) Journal kept on sledge journey by Lieut.
F.L. M'Clintock. H.M.S. Assistance, 1850-1.
(3) Arctic Journals of Admiral Sir F.L. M'Clintock
in
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
H.M.S. Enterprise 1848-9
H.M.S. Assistance 1850-1
H.M.S. Intrepid 1852-4
Yacht ~ 1857-9, with reports by
Lieut. Hobson of journey in 1859
and findings of the Franklin Record,
and by Capt. Allen Young of journey
in 1859 to Prince of viales Land.
Copies of the films are available at a small cost
from the Director of the National Library, Kildare Street,
Dublin.