At the banquet, Leonard Ethan and the others gathered some very valuable information from the residents of these islands, the most important of which came from a cousin of Miller's, Sammy Coateswick.
This Inuit man claimed that, seven winters ago, he and a friend were driving a snowmobile near William Island when, in a remote and icy bay, they found a pole sticking out of the ice.
Upon closer examination, it turned out to be a six-foot-long wooden mast. Coateswick hung onto the pole with his hands and feet while his friend took a photograph.
However, during that outing, he lost his camera and never told anyone else about the incident, but he always thought of the Franklin Expedition.
After the banquet was over and they returned to the ship, everyone hastily gathered in the conference room to summarize the information obtained from their conversations with the locals, focusing on Sammy's information.
