Show important from the arctic ocean mie following is an extract from t rom a letter dated hons hong kong march 28 there have ave been hereto less than thirty seven wl chalers whalers aers P from am the arctic seas it inay interest you to a know that they almost all ail believe that sir john franklin is safe and that he has got through the lee ice barrier into inper waters where he will vill not be reached until a mild mad season arrives which they say the I 1 present will be most of them have now departed they say franklin wil not suffer for want 0 of food they ove give strange accounts of the Esqui maux vibrating from the asiatic Ysia tic to the continent and back again carrying their boats made of skins and whalebone over the ice and launching laun ding them when i they meet with open water they all 11 confirm the fact that the whales found in Behn straits and in baffino Baff ins bay are the same species provi proving n g I 1 the he existence of a passage for a whale of the ar arctic c t ic Is species ies t they hey say has never been seen to the south ye of 22 22 d degrees egi ees of 0 latitude so they c cannot have doubled either of the capes of good hope or cape horn and the whale ia ia under the necessity of making his pie presence sence known by coming to the surface to baw |