Student's Manual (1845)

Student's Manual

Created by: unknown
Archive: National Maritime Museum
Reference number: Object ID no AAA2055
Date: Before 1845
Notes: A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-1848. Two pages of a book obtained from the Inuit at Repulse Bay in 1854 by the Rae Expedition. The Inuit said that they had obtained the material from a camp to the north west of the mouth of the Back River where a party of Europeans had died of starvation. The complete publication is entitled 'The students' manual: designed by specific direction, to aid in forming and strengthening the intellectual & moral character & habits of students' by the Reverend John Todd.

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