James Fitzjames is the second. His name is on the cairn. The others are waiting.
The expedition that left the Thames in May 1845 and never returned has been reconstructed, over 176 years, from everything it left behind: the note in the cairn at Victory Point, the artifacts scattered across the King William Island coast, the accounts preserved in Inuit oral tradition and gathered by investigators from Rae through Hall to Schwatka, the bones in the permafrost and in archaeological collections, and now, through the specific capacity that modern genetics provides, from the DNA preserved in a tooth in the jaw of the captain who signed the last document the expedition ever produced. The tooth held the evidence. The science read it. The cairn on King William Island holds the answer.