The first known victim of cannibalism from the British Royal Navy's doomed Franklin expedition has been identified as Captain James Fitzjames. The officer is the second member of the ill-fated 1845 mission to be found using DNA and genealogical evidence. Fitzjames was one of the captains of British explorer Sir John Franklin 's two missing ships. The expedition was meant to find a Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic but became a story of starvation and death. The commander and his 128

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