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In the 40's the King of Denmark made an attempt to
obtain these aerolites and authorized an expedition for that
purpose, but nothing came of the effort.
The officers of the "North Star" one of the Franklin
Search ships which passed the winter of '49-50 in Wolstenholme
Sound north of Cape York , were unsuscessful in finding the ae-
rolites, and the same may be said of the various expeditions,
English and American, and the whalers , which visited these waters
during the fifty years following Ross' voyage. None of these
came any nearer than Ross himself to a solution of the mystery.
The Carm 18883 Eskimos.
Baron Nordenskjold sent his ship to Cape York for the
express puspose of discovering and if possible, bringing away
these valuable specimens, but the ice in Melville Bay did not
permit him to get any where near the locality, and he too returne
ed unsuccessful.
From the fact that the existence of these aerolites
was as above noted, learned by an English officer, the British
Museum has been specially interested in them, and one of the
objects of the splendid English Arctic Expedition of 1875 -76
was to discover and secure them, if possible. This expedition
like the others, however, failed in its efforts, and until I
succeeded in the spring of 1894 in finding the aerolites, the
information already noted above comprised the sum total of our
knowledge on this interesting subject.
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