James Knight with 39 men in the frigate Albany and sloop Discovery left Fort Prince of Wales in Manitoba to search for the Straights of Anian aka the Northwest Passage in 1719 to never return. The remains of their habitation, one skull, and the two vessels were discovered on Marble Island near Rankin Inlet but the rest of the men vanished. In 1989-1992, Geiger and Beattie began an archaeological dig to search for whatever remained but reached the same puzzling conclusion of no skeletons and no clues where the missing men went. Two theories were put forth; massacre by Eskimos or starved to death (again lack of skeletal evidence.) There was anecdotal evidence of an Eskimo boy fathered by a white man but he was never found. In the absence of skeletal finds, the mystery will remain. ( )