The Mystery of the North Pole--The First Explorer--"The Great Dark Wall at the End of the World"--"Frost-Smoke"--The Lights and Sounds of the North--The Aurora Borealis--Mock Moons--The Early Adventurers: Willoughby, Frobisher, Davis, Hudson, Baffin, Ross, and Parry--The North-West Passage 17 Young Franklin--His Dreams of Adventure--He becomes a Sailor--His First Arctic Expedition--Fails to get through Behring Straits--Explores Baffin's Bay--The 1845 Expedition--The _Erebus_ and _Terror_--The "Good-bye" at Greenland--Wellington Channel--They select Winter Quarters--Discovery of the North-West Passage--Death of Franklin--Prisoned in the Ice--The Crew Abandon the Ships--Defeat and Death 25…
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