As To My Not Leaving A Letter At Fort Enterprise It Was Because By Some
Mischance You Had Forgot To Give Me Paper When We Parted.*
(*Footnote. I certainly offered Mr. Wentzel some paper when he quitted us
but he declined it, having then a notebook, and Mr. Back gave him a
pencil.)
I however wrote this news on a plank in pencil and placed it in the top
of your former bedstead where I left it. Since it has not been found
there some Indians must have gone to the house after my departure and
destroyed it. These details, Sir, I have been induced to enter into
(rather unexpectedly) in justification of myself and hope it will be
satisfactory.
End of The Journey to the Polar Sea, by John Franklin
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