To perpetuate the remembrance of talent, enterprise and worth as combined in the character and evinced by the life of XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX this monument has been erected by friends who, as they valued him in life, regret him in death,. He was second in command with XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and Captain of XXXXXXXXXX in the polar expedition which left England on 22 May XXXX', 'Altho' there remained no survivors of the expedition, enough had been ascertained to shew that to it is justly due the honor of the discovery of the long sought XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, and that XXXXXXXXXXXXX, having survived his chief, perished with the remainder of the party after he had bravely led them to the coast of America: he was born at XXXXXXXXXXX the 17th September XXXX, but the place or time of his death no man knoweth to this day