KABLOONAS

KABLOONAS
Burial of John Franklin. Author: me

KABLOONAS

Kabloonas is the way in which the Inuit who live in the north part of Canada call those who haven´t their same ascendency.

The first time i read this word was in the book "Fatal Passage" by Ken McGoogan, when, as the result of the conversations between John Rae and some inuit, and trying to find any evidence of the ill-fated Sir John Franklin Expedition, some of then mentioned that they watched how some kabloonas walked to die in the proximities of the river Great Fish.

I wish to publish this blog to order and share all those anecdotes that I´ve been finding in the arctic literature about arctic expeditions. My interest began more than 15 years ago reading a little book of my brother about north and south pole expeditions. I began reading almost all the bibliography about Antarctic expeditions and the superknown expeditions of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, etc. After I was captured by the Nansen, Nobile and Engineer Andree. But the most disturbing thing in that little book, full of pictures, was the two pages dedicated to the last Franklin expedition of the S.XIX, on that moment I thought that given the time on which this and others expeditions happened, few or any additional information could be obtained about it. I couldn´t imagine that after those two pages It would be a huge iceberg full of stories, unresolved misteries, anecdotes, etc. I believe that this iceberg, on the contrary than others, would continue growing instead melting.



viernes, 27 de abril de 2012

TRAFALGAR: EL BUQUE DE JOHN FRANKLIN COMBATIO CONTRA EL BUQUE DE DIONISIO ALCALA GALIANO/TRAFALGAR: THE SHIP OF JOHN FRANKLIN FOUGHT WITH THE SHIP OF DIONISIO ALCALA GALIANO

Investigando un poco más sobre la coincidencia de que Dionisio Alcalá Galiano fuera el padre de un buen amigo de Lady Jane en su juventud (Antonio Alcalá Galiano) y que además combatiera en la batalla de Trafalgar al igual que lo hizo John Franklin, he descubierto que el navío Bahama que Dionisio comandaba fué vapuleado por varios buques ingleses, entre otros el HMS Bellerophon donde iba John Franklin como oficial de señales y el HMS Collosus.

Como indican algunos testimonios y como se puede ver en esta animación de "todoababor" se aprecia como la segunda columna de buques ingleses, la que dirigía el HMS Royal Sovereign, corta la línea principal Española y Francesa de manera que el Bellerophon acaba situándose a la par del Bahama. La pintura de Derek G.M. Garden "El Bellerophon abre fuego" ilustra este fatídico momento.

Aquello ocurrió sobre las tres de la tarde de aquel día aunque según parece no fueron los disparos del HMS Bellerophon los que acabaron con la vida de Dionisio sino los de otro buque de mayor envergadura, de unos 100 cañones y tres puentes.

Investigating further on the coincidence about that Dioniso Alcalá Galiano was the father of a good friend of Lady Jane in his youth (Antonio Alcalá Galiano) and that he would fought in the Trafalgar Battle as would done Jhon Franklin,  i´ve discovered that that the ship Bahama that Dionisio commanded was battered by several British vessels, among then the HMS Bellerophon where was John Franklin and the HMS Collosus.

As some evidence show, and part of that is possible to watch in this animation of "todoababor"  you can see how in the second british ships column, leadered by  the HMS Royal Sovereign, cut the main line Spanish and French so that the HMS Bellerophon ends staying side by side of the Bahama. The Derek G.M. Garden picture "The Bellerophon opens fire" show that fateful momment.

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