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.



miércoles, 30 de mayo de 2012

DIRECTO DE LA FUENTE/RIGHT FROM THE SOURCE

Acabo de encontrar en el JOHN MURRAY ARCHIVE esta digitalización del cuaderno de notas de John Franklin que ségún parece escribió durante los peores momentos transcurridos en Fort Enterprise
 durante la expedición de 1819 para explorar la costa norte de Canada.
Fort Enterprise_Edward Finden (copy of a watercolour of George Back) Wikipedia

http://digital.nls.uk/jma/gallery/title.cfm?id=37&seq=25

La escritura demuestra sin lugar a dudas que fueron  momentos de una extrema dureza.  Pongo en primer lugar la última hoja, donde se dice el origen del documento, pero hay 25 ilegibles páginas del diario. Lo he intentado leer, pero personalmente no puedo entender nada o casi nada.

También figuran en esta web algunas de las acuarelas pintadas por George back. He elegido poner en primer lugar la de las cascadas Wilbeforce, la misma que Cory Trepanier, según comenté en un post anterior también ha pintado recientemente.

http://digital.nls.uk/jma/gallery/title.cfm?id=70&seq=22

I´ve just found this digitalized pictures of the notebook of John Franklin which seems to have been written during the worst moments passed in Fort Enterprise in the 1819 expedition to explore the north shores of Canada.

http://digital.nls.uk/jma/gallery/title.cfm?id=37&seq=25

The writting shows with any doubt the extremely hardness of the moment.  I put on first place the last page, where the origin of the document is mentioned by John Franklin but there are 25 illegible pages of the journal. I´ve tried to read it, but i can´t personally understand nothing or almost nothing.

It appears also in this same web page some of the watercolours painted by George Back. I´´ ve choosen putting on the first place that of the Wilbeforce waterfalls, the same that Cory Trepanier, as i said on a previous post has painted recently.

http://digital.nls.uk/jma/gallery/title.cfm?id=70&seq=22

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