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tunately at the time two English whalers were in a bay--latitude 62 degrees 52 minutes, longitude 65 degrees 65 minutes west--and Captain Parker, who commanded one of them, promised Mr. Hall a boat, which he was to leave at a designated place for his use.  By some means the Englishman did not leave the boat, and Mr. Hall says that he thinks the ships were blown out of the bay; and yet he is anxious to hear the true history of the case. The cause of humanity demands an explanation also. 
  Mr. Hall returned to the George Henry, and learned that the schooner Rescue, or "Amaret," a tender to the bark, had been lost in the gate of the 27th September. In reference to Frobisher's discoveries, it appears that the ancient navigator and explorer entered this bay, and, finding that his progress was impeded by fixed ice, supposed that it must be an open strait frozen over, and the British government have never since pushed its further exploration.  The lay of the land is very different from the lines laid down upon the charts now in use.  This fact is and has been known by the whalemen who frequent its locality; but they supposed it to be a strait.  But no official change has been made by any government.  
  Mr. Hall has a very large and carefully prepared chart of this bay, and will in due time publish it to the world; but at the present time he deems it proper to withhold its features. 
  In 1861 his explorations were renewed with energy. He had become acclimated, and was fully alive to the amount of work which was before him.  A whaleboat was now procured form the George Henry, and with a crew of six Innuits, male and female, he started on his northern journey.  The natives take their families with them when on these expeditions, and the women pull an oar with the men.  Dogs are also of the company, and several native boats are taken for the purpose of hunting and fishing with.  Thus proved with [[italicized]] personnel [[/italicized]] and [[italicized]] materiel [[/italicized]] they started, living on prepared food, in small quantities, but mainly depending upon the game captured on the way. 
  Mr. Hall went to Countess of Warwick Sound, and after much difficulty succeeded in discovering the place where Frobisher attempted to plant a colony.  A considerable time was spent here in obtaining relics of that ill-fated colony.  At nearly every place of their debarkation relics were found consisting of pieces of coal, brick, wood, and a portion of a cannon shot, which might have been used as boat ballast.  
  The coal had been overgrown with moss, and a dark vegetable growth; the brick looked quite fresh and new; the wood was simply chips, which, although embedded in the coal dust for nearly three hundred years, are well preserved.  The piece of iron is well worn with the rust of so many years.  
  One of the most palpable facts in connection with the discovery of these people of "ye olden time" is, that Mr. Hall discovered a trench twenty feet deep an one hundred feet long, a species of dry dock, leading down to the water.  In this excavation the party of Frobisher's men who were captured by the Esquimaux on his first voyage, with the assistance of some of their captors', built a small vessel, in which they were to embark and sail to England.  In due time she was completed and put to sea, but heavy weather coming on, and their vessel proving unseaworthy, they were obliged to return. All of this crew were severely frost bitten.  Despairing of ever reaching their native land, and being severely frost bitten, the captives soon died. 
  The facts of their mode of living and attempts to reach England were gathered from the Innuits.  Mr. Hall says that the traditional histories of the Esquimaux are remarkably clear and explicit, and can be relied upon to the greatest extent; and I believe that those who have been familiar with this class of people coincide in the same opinion.

  The information respecting the fate of two of the boats' crews of Sir John Franklin's expedition is not yet as clear as could be desired. The facts are these:--
  While on one of his sledge journeys, in 1861--for he has made several--a party of strange Innuits came to his stopping place, and from them he learned that three years ago two boats' crews came down Hudson's Straits, bound through the straits. These men, [[? "cudlemas,"]]or white men, stopped on one of the Lower Savage Islands (which lie near the mainland on the north side of Hudson's Straits), and here they left what the Innuits called "soft stones."  One of the natives, who knew the use of firearms, saw the "soft stones," and pronounced them to be leaden bullets. All traces of these men, were subsequently lost, and Mr. Hall, not knowing that the Kitty, a Hudson's
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Bay Company's ship, had been lost there five years previously, supposed these boat boats' crews to be a portion of the Sir John Franklin expedition, from the fact that that regretted explorer, not knowing how long he might be detained in the ice, had laid a very large supply of ammunition and leaden bullets, and that quantities had been taken in the boats when they left the larger vessels; and in their endeavors to get through Hudson's Straits, and on to Labrador, they had thrown away all cumbersome articles, and thus the bullets came in this place.  Of this matter Mr. Hall will make some further search in history before he will permit his inferences to have too great a weight in his narrative. 
  Mr. Hall has discovered a very large and interesting mountain of fossils at the head of Frobisher's Bay, which has furnished him the materials for an extensive scientific article on that abstruse [[? subject.]]
  He also discovered an immense glacier near Queen Elizabeth's Land.  This he named the "Grinnell glacier," in honor of Mr. Henry Grinnell. It exceeds three thousand feet in height, is one hundred miles long and fifty miles in width. 
  Mr. Hall has brought home with him a very interesting family of Innuits, or Esquimaux.  E-bier-bing, the husband, is a fine looking fellow, about twenty-four years of age; but he is not so large and good looking as was Cad.la-go. 
  [[? Tak-oo-h-too,]] the wife, is about the same age as her husband, and is the interpreter. 
  Mr. Hall informs me that she is the best interpreter in the Arctic regions. Her knowledge of the country and its traditions is [[? wonderial,]] and any explorer would feel justly proud of her services. 
  Tuk-er-lik-e-ta, the infant child, is one year old, and is a fine child. 
  The father and mother went to England some years ago and were presented to the Queen. They, of course, are not so much surprised at seeing a civilized country. 
  In addition to expedition relics, Mr. Hall has a large collection of memorials of his social sojournings amount the Innuits. They consist of a variety of articles, cut from bone and ivory, representing polar bears, seals, walruses, ducks, &c. They are very interesting specimens of workmanship, and coming from so remote a region are doubly valuable.
  According to Mr. Hall life in these high latitudes is no [[? iso]] difficult of preservation as is generally supposed, the snow and ice houses of the Innuits being exceedingly tight and comfortable, and their coarse animal food rendered palatable by the sharpness of appetite engendered by the keen atmosphere of an extreme northern climate. 
  Mr. Hall states that to Captain Buddington he is indebted for much very valuable assistance, and further states that the Captain is an accomplished navigator and explorer.  
 The Esquimaux family went over to Captain Buddington's house this evening. 
  Mr. Hall will go to New York to-night
  I forward you the list of the officers and crew of the George Henry, and the statements of the second officer and steward. They will be found full of interest. 
LIST OF OFFICERS AND CREW OF THE BARK GEORGE HENRY. 
S.O Buddington...............Captain.
Frank Rodgers................First Officer.
A.J. Gardiner................Second Officer.
Rueben Lamb..................Third Officer.
Robert Smith.................Fourth Officer. 
C. Keeny.....................Boatsteerer.
E. W. Morgan..................Boatsteerer.
A. Bailey....................Boatsteerer.
W. F. Roberts................Boatsteerer.
W. R. Sterry.................Cooper.
J. R. Hudson.................Steward. 
Geo. Beckwith................Seaman.
R. A. Comstock...............Seaman.
H. Smith.....................Seaman. 
A. S. Bradley................Seaman. 
J. B. Neil...................Seaman. 
J. Buckly....................Seaman. 
S. Wilson....................Seaman. 
W. B. Russel.................Seaman.
J. Gray......................Seaman. 
W. Stokes....................Seaman. 
W. Conley....................Seaman. 
W. Ellard....................Seaman. 
M. Silva.....................Seaman. 
W. Johnson...................Seaman. 
J. Bruce.....................Seaman. 
J. Antonio...................Seaman. 
F. Silva.....................Seaman.
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STATEMENT OF MR. A. J. GARDINER, SECOND OFFICER.
  One of the first things of note which occurred on our voyage was the loss of the schooner Amaret, a tender to the bark.  We were lying at anchor in Krun-gun-e-nuk harbor, having just boiled down a whale--our second one.  A heavy gale from the northeast set in, and it was impossible to reach her with boats.  The crew of the Amaret were fortunately on board of the bark.  The brig Georgiana went on shore that night in the same harbor.  All of her crew were saved, and subsequently she was released from her perilous situation. 
  As the season closed we made preparations to winter in this harbor, and by the middle of November we were frozen in solid. 
  It was in this wintering place a man, who lost his way in a snow storm, was found frozen to death. His name was John Brown, a native of France.  We buried him near the shore, and near the spot where he probably breathed his last.  This sad accident was a warning to our men, and they profited by it, for we did not lose any more by such acts. 
  After the ice broke up we started to go into Frobisher's Bay, but heavy ice drove us back, and we went back and to the northward of our first winter quarters about three miles.  Here we remained until our final departure from the icy regions.  Here we took three whales; so, with the two we had taken the season previous, we had 600 barrels of oil. Mr. Hall left the George Henry about the 1st of August, 1861, in a whaleboat, with a native crew, and went around the head of Frobisher's Bay.  He was gone about two months, during which time he surveyed the entire coast line of the bay.  From October until April Mr. Hall was engaged in writing his journal and completing charts, &c. On the 1st day of April, 1862, Mr. Hall started on a sledge journey, accompanied by Henry Smith, one of the George Henry's crew, and two natives.  On this journey they discovered the great glacier and surveyed the mountain of fossils, and made further surveys of Frobisher's Bay. By the time he had started on this journey he had become well posted, and prosecuted his journey with good  success.  He returned in the latter part of May, and went in a boat and surveyed Cape Elizabeth.  The ice was so heavy that not much was accomplished, and they returned in a few days. 
  I wintered at Kig-ga-te-guak, a large island about sixty miles to the northward of the harbor where the ship lay.  I arrived there about the 1st of February.  There were two families of Innuits and one of the crew with me.  We were thus separated in order to better take care of ourselves, and we could hunt better, as we lived in snow houses; but as far as victualing was concerned, we were the less favored party.  For two weeks we lived on seals' blood, prepared in the following manner;--When a seal was caught a hole was made in the snow, basin shaped.  Into this the blood was poured, and when it had frozen the snow was knocked off, and a small piece was put into a dish or diluted with water; and this was our only food. At this time there had been heavy snow storms, and we had been unable to procure seal or walrus. 
  We started for the ship; but after proceeding eight miles we were obliged to abandon the journey and return to our huts.  Our prospects were very gloomy, and the hours and days were passed in sad forebodings.  We had no opportunities for communicating with our friends, and for a time our fate seemed sealed. 
  After starting the second time our prospects brightened, and on the 28th of March we reached the ship, pretty well used up.  On arriving among our friends we soon procured provisions, and were again enabled to recruit our half famished bodies.  Our time was passed in visiting the several camps and in hunting.  On the 26th of April we loaded our boats with tents, &c., and started over the mountain towards Frobisher's Bay, where we expected to hunt walrus, and perhaps a chance whale might fall a prize to us.  In on day we were at our first destination, and remained there about ten days, when we shifted to a place southerly about twenty-five miles. We were quite successful in getting walrus.  We saw whales on the 25th of June, and chased them, but did not get any. This was the only time we saw whales in this place. From the 10th of May to the 8th of August we captured thirty-seven walrus, averaging five hundred pounds each. When we caught them we took them on shore and skinned them, and after cutting up the meat we buried it in the snow.  A good sized walrus would last us about three days.  At this time we were enabled to cook a greater portion of the meat we eat; but when living with the natives we were obliged to eat two-thirds of it raw.
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