[127] Under the title Versus Tennysoniani no less than 165 renderings of “Not here ...” etc., in Greek, Latin, Sanscrit, Arabic, German, Italian, and French, etc. were published by Canon Wright in 1882 at the Cambridge Press, written by Archbp. Benson, Canon Ainger, Dean Bradley, Prof. Butcher, Dr Haig-Brown, Dr Butler, Master of Trinity, Calverley, Prof. Cowell, Farrar, Gladstone, Jebb, Lord Lyttelton, Dean Merivale, Max Müller, Prof. Palmer, Lord Selborne, Bp. Wordsworth, and others. (Ed.)
[128] Ross died on April 3rd, 1861, after seventeen polar navigable seasons, and nine Arctic winters; Captain Bird retired an Admiral and died in his 83rd year on December 3rd, 1881.
[129] Pemmican is a preparation of beef from which all that is fluid has been evaporated over a wood fire. The fibre is then pounded, and mixed with an equal weight of pounded beef fat.
[130] M’Clintock’s sledge crew in his first great journey deserve a niche in the Arctic temple of fame. James Wilkie, captain of the sledge, aged 33, was a splendid seaman, zealous, cheerful, and humorous. James Hoile, a fine, tall man of 25, excellent in all respects, a sailmaker. James Dawson, aged 23, was a good-looking foretopman. John Salmon, a small, wiry man, who was with M’Clintock in the Enterprise, was really the strongest of all. Hood and Jim Heels were Marines, the former a shoemaker, aged 31, the latter, aged 24, sang a good song.
[131] Captain Austin was afterwards Superintendent of Deptford Dockyard during the Crimean War, a post of great importance at that time, Admiral, K.C.B., and Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in 1863; he died in 1865. Captain Ommanney, in the Eurydice, commanded the squadron in the White Sea. In 1853 he had the Hawke in the Baltic; and the Brunswick in the West Indies until 1860. He was Captain Superintendent at Gibraltar in 1864, retiring a K.C.B. in 1874. He died in December 1904, aged 91.
[132] Mate in the Resolute, then aged 22, afterwards Sir George Nares, K.C.B., died January, 1915.
[133] Among these was a devotional book which Sir George Back had given to his old shipmate Gore. It was restored to Sir George, who to the day of his death always kept it on his drawing-room table under a glass case.
[134] The Observatory on Pendulum Island was in 74° 32′ 19″ N. and 18° 50′ W.
[135] Clavering’s fate was a sad one. He sailed in command of the Redwing from Sierra Leone in the summer of 1827, and was never heard of again, though some wreckage was found on the coast.
[136] There had been two early attempts to explore the east coast before Graah’s expedition. In 1752 Walloe got as far as 60° 28′, and Giesecke, a German, got to 60° 9′ in 1806.