Always both hilarious and extremely fascinating that Franklin compares the Northwest Passage to the literal Holy Grail.
Oh, you mean that ultimate Lost and Undiscoverable Thing, Sir John?
That vessel for capturing the blood of massive sacrifice?
The thing that provides eternal life (in your case, by ensuring that neither you nor any man under your command will get the chance to grow old but will live on eternally in name and infamy only)?
That Holy Grail?
















