Excerpt from The Coppermine Country During the same time Captain Knight, who had been in charge of a number of the Company's posts on Hudson Bay, and who was himself the founder of Churchill, had also seen some of this copper ore and had become greatly interested in it, though there is also reason to suppose that he considered that it was associated with gold, or that gold occurred in the country. Arthur Dobbs says of him, that he had a great share in the Company's stock and that he pressed the Company to go upon the ...
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Excerpt from The Coppermine Country During the same time Captain Knight, who had been in charge of a number of the Company's posts on Hudson Bay, and who was himself the founder of Churchill, had also seen some of this copper ore and had become greatly interested in it, though there is also reason to suppose that he considered that it was associated with gold, or that gold occurred in the country. Arthur Dobbs says of him, that he had a great share in the Company's stock and that he pressed the Company to go upon the discovery and trade and had strong chests made to hold the gold he was to bring home. In the spring of 1719, Captain Knight and his associates sailed from England in two ships, named the Albany and the Discovery. Unfortunately, the expedition was wrecked on Marble Island and all the officers and crew were lost, although their fate was not definitely known until the year'1767, when their remains were discovered by Mr. Joseph Stephens of the Hudson Bay Company, who was in charge of a small vessel called the Success, engaged in the whale fishery. The account of the finding of the remains of Captain Knight and his men is given in very pathetic terms by Samuel Hearne j; how they lived on the island for a couple of years and used to go up to the top of the rock looking for someone to come and rescue them, and how, at last. Only two remained and of these two one fell down and died and the other died in attempting to bury him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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