:04:01
Three months later, I got word
that he'd left the ship in Baffin Land.
:04:07
Why?
:04:08
I had no idea, until I received this...
:04:12
from a trading post at Fort Conger
on Ellesmere Island.
:04:16
Apparently Donald had left it
with the factor for safekeeping...
:04:19
when he'd gone off
on some sort of expedition.
:04:22
When he didn't come back,
the factor sent it on to me.
:04:27
It's an old page
from a Hudson's Bay Company journal.
:04:31
Look at the entry
forJanuary the 15th, 1856.
:04:36
"To this post this day...
:04:37
cameJohn Murchison
with his Eskimos...
:04:41
who hunt the white bear...
:04:43
far beyond the land's end.
:04:45
He told of seeing a lone cloud...
:04:48
as if lying on the ice...
:04:50
and hidden beneath it...
:04:52
an island.
:04:54
This island he sought to examine,
but his Eskimos refused him...
:04:59
saying it's guarded by evil spirits...
:05:02
for it's the place
where the whales go to die."
:05:06
- We're coming into Dover now, sir.
- Thank you.
:05:09
Sir Anthony, the graveyard of whales
is just a fantasy...
:05:13
a whaler's El Dorado, where he thinks
he's going to find a huge fortune...
:05:16
in whale bone and ambergris.
:05:18
The fact is, it simply doesn't exist.
:05:21
Graveyard of whales
is a legend, nothing more.
:05:23
A legend or not, the graveyard
is what my son went after.
:05:26
It's my son I'm looking for.
:05:32
- Porter, sir?
- Uh, yes. Take our luggage
to the Admiralty Pier.
:05:35
- Very good, sir.
- Sir Anthony...
:05:37
I'm afraid this has to be
the end of the line for me.
:05:39
I'd help if I could.
I know how much this means to you.
:05:42
But you're trying the impossible.
To try to find one man...
:05:46
with nothing more to go on
than a page from an old journal...
:05:49
There is something more.
Donald also left this with the factor.
:05:53
I was hoping
you might know what it was.
:05:58
It's carved bone. It's Eskimo work.
It's quite common in the Arctic.