MWuersten@puyallup.k12.wa.us writes:
>The reference to Crispin Bay was from a poem by Donald Hall, "Wolf =
>Knife"--
>
>"In the mid August, in the second year
>of my First Polar Expedition, the snow and ice of winter
>almost upon us, Kantiuk and I
>attempted to dash the sledge
>along Crispin Bay, searching again for relics
>of the Frankline Expedition. "
I couldn't find a place called Crispin Bay (I also tried St. Crispin), but
there was a Franklin Expedition. They were searching for the Northwest
Passage. Recent evidence points to lead poisoning causing the deaths of
the members of the crew. Owen Beattie and John Geiger wrote a book about
it called Buried in Ice: the mystery of a lost Arctic expedition.
Mary Jane Krajnak
Kodiak Middle School Library
722 Mill Bay Road
Kodiak, AK 99615
mkrajnak@kodiak.k12.ak.us
Keep a language alive! Check out the Alutiiq word of the week:
http://www.alutiiqmuseum.com/wordoftheweek.htm
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