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   In August we left our hunting ground and returned to the ship; and on the 9th day of August we weighed our anchors.  We did not get out of the bay until the 12th; and, with a fair wind, we started for St. Johns.  We lived on short rations until we reached that place on the 21st of August.  We had three cakos of bread and a piece of meat for our daily allowance; no coffee and no flour.  Our crew are all well and hearty. One man, William Ellard, lost the toes on both feet the second winter by frost bite.  Captain Buddington amputated them with much success. Mr. Ellard was able to walk easily.
STATEMENT OF MR. J. H. HUDSON, STEWARD.
  The first winter we froze in solid about the 15th of November. We had no trouble that winter in reference to provisions. We got out of the ice on the 28th of July, 1861. We did not live on board all the time during the winter. We moved on shore on the 1st of May to a place twenty-five miles southwest from the ship, where the natives told us there was a good whaling ground. We lived (in) tents made of the sails of the ship. Here we lived very (com)fortably. In good weather we were employed in look(ing) for whales and in cutting wood from the wreck of the (?)tish whaling steamer Traveller, which lay about seven(?) miles from us. Our food was the ship's provisions (?)h ducks and duck's eggs - a very large and delicious (?)cies. Here we remained from May to the 27th of July, (?)en we came on board of the vessel and got under way. (?)nding to go into Frobisher's Bay and go to whaling: but weather was unfavorable and we went into (?) gum-ook ay, where we anchored. We commenced whaling on the 12th of August, and followed it up until the 18th of October. We took two whales the first fall and three the last, making six hundred barrels of oil and ten thousand pounds of bone. The whales were plenty but shy. Owing to the ice making so quick, we were not able to fill the slip.
  We froze in on the 18th of October. At the time we froze in we had only five casks of bread and six barrels of salt meats, with a little coffee and half a barrel of beans, five barrels of flour and half a barrel of molasses.
  The carcasses of the whales were buried by the natives for winter use, and we bought it of them as we wanted it, paying them in tobacco. About the 1st of January, 1862, the natives moved to the walrus grounds, about 30 miles west, and the crew went with them. Some of the natives went 60 miles to the northward, and six of our men went with them. The captain and myself remained by the ship. When the natives went first they did not have good luck, and for about a month we were all on short allowances of meat. The northern party had the hardest time, and for a long period they lived on nothing but the paunch of the reindeer. The paunch, boiled in oil, is quite a palatable dish, and especially to the Esquimaux. We had only one cooked meal a day; the rest of the time we lived on raw meat. The first winter we were troubled with the scurvy; but the second winter, when we lived on raw meat, none of us had the scurvy or symptoms of it.
  Our time was spent in hunting and fishing for seal.   
  The natives treated us with every kindness; and for hospitality they are not to be excelled. I have known them to take the food from their children and give to us.
  We lived with them until the 1st of May, when we put up tents for our own use. Then we brought over our own boats and went to work to hunt on our own account. During this time we made our clothing out of deerskins and sealskins. This made us very comfortable.
  From the 1st of May to the 8th of August we were still in the ice. On the latter day the ice broke, and the crew came on board. The next day we got under way; but storms prevented us from getting out until the 12th of August, when, with a fair wind, we cast adrift from the ice and started for home, arriving at St. Johns, New-Foundland, August 21. We had not communication with the civilized world from October 1, 1860, until August (?), 1862 - one year and ten months.
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THE ARCTIC DISCOVERIES.
Mr. C. F. Hall Before the Geographical and Statistical Society - The Innuit Family - Statement of Captain S. O. Buddington, &c., &c.
  On Thursday evening Mr. C. F. Hall read a very interesting paper on his Arctic discoveries before the Geographical and Statistical Society.
  The audience was quite large and composed of those of our citizens who have ever taken a deep interest in matters pertaining to Arctic research. Among the number present we noticed Captain. W. Parker Snow, an English Arctic explorer of considerable note.
  Mr. Henry Grinnell introduced Mr. Hall to the audience who greeted him with applause.
  In his preliminary remarks the speaker referred to the generosity of some of the citizens of Ohio, Connecticut and New York, who enabled him to start on his first, and what has proved quite successful, voyage. Yet he felt that he had not by any means accomplished his mission to those regions.
  He read from his original manuscript many interesting incidents of his earlier experiences and of the dangers he encountered. To assist him in explaining to the audience the track of his travels three charts were suspended over the platform, and from time to time he pointed out the various points of interest.
  His narrative of his life among the Innuits was very graphic, and he referred to their kindness and generosity in terms which were eloquent and touching. He paid these denizens of a frozen region a tribute which any body of men might be proud of. The Innuits of Greenland were found to be an educated people, little children reading books published by the natives. Several of the books were shown, whose typography and appearance were in every way highly creditable. He said the Innuits were honest, religious and a self-governing people, having no laws, no rulers or chiefs; and in all his intercourse with them he never saw a fight or even a quarrel. The had some vices, as we would term them, but their virtues were in the majority. One thing he could say of them, if one had anything to eat, all had something eat. The speaker dwelt at some length on the oral history obtained from the natives; and, strange to say, he has been so careful in his notes as to write down any question propounded to them and their answers. Much of the credit of finding the relics or the spot where they were was due to a conversation he had with O-ko-jox-ie, a venerable Innuit woman who is believed to be over one hundred years of age. In narrating how he came to find the Codiuna, or White Man's Island, he was very minute in his statement, and his theories were satisfactorily proved in all points relating to it. It is seldom one sees the profound attention and interest manifested by an audience as was witnessed on this occasion. Mr. Hall had with him a volume of Hakabuit's voyages, kindly loaned by Hon. Geo. Bancroft, from which he read several extracts bearing upon the points in question. This rare and valuable work, speaking of the abode or Frobisher's men, agrees with the position where Mr. Hall found his relics.
  Shortly after nine o'clock the Innuits, E-bier-ping, Tuk-e-leto, his wife, and Tuk-e-lik-etu his child, accompanied by Captain. S. O. Buddington, were brought into the room clad in full summer costume of deer and seal skins. Their presence created quite a sensation, and Mr. Hall gave the audience quite a history of their services to him. Tuk-e-leto, the woman, is claimed to be the best interpreter in the Arctic regions. She is of a mild disposition, and has a faculty of acquiring readily the lingo of other tribes.
  During the evening Captain William Parker Snow, a British explorer, propounded a few questions to Mr. Hall in relation to the discoveries of Perry, which Mr. Hall answered with promptness and in such a manner that Capt. Snow stated to the Society that he was of the firm belief that Mr. Hall was the first man to definitely settle the fact that the body of water heretofore known as Frobisher's Strait was only a deep bay, and, as an Englishman, he was proud to acknowledge Mr. Hall as the discoverer of this interesting fact.
  After the close of the lecture, on motion of the Rev. Dr. Thompson, seconded by Hon. George Bancroft, the thanks of the audience and society were presented to Mr. Hall. 
  Mr. Hall's relics were now open for inspection. They comprise quite a variety of specimens of bituminous coal, tiles, brick and pieces of stone, on which can be seen fragments of mortar which by age have become as hard as the rock itself. All of these relics were dug up, and not picked up carelessly, along the shores. Among the articles found is a large piece of iron  ballast, weighing about twenty pounds. Time has made quite a change in its appearance. Among the most remarkable portions of Mr. Hall's cabinet is his manuscript writings, covering over three thousand closely written pages. During the latter part of his cruise his paper ran short, and he was obliged to use envelopes, scraps of paper, blank books, &c. He has also a large number of charts of the regions over which he has travelled. Some of them are the work of his own hands, and others are the production of the Innuits.
  All of his work shows a thorough knowledge of the science of navigation and surveying, and all of his surveys can be relied on.
  Mr. Hall has also obtained quite a collection of books, published at some of the Innuit stations in Greenland. Most of them are illustrated, and give the reader an excellent idea of the people and their attainments when Christianized.
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we were frozen solid, and there was not enough water in sight to float a boat. It was owing to the heavy ice setting in so early in the season, and blocking up the entire bay, that we were frozen in so early in the year.
  Now came the dark time of the voyage. I had a crew of thirty men to provide for during a tedious winter, and had only two months' provisions to do it with. I can assure you it strained my nerves to think of it. Mr. Hall had returned by this time, and his little stock of provisions he freely turned over for the support of the party; and it proved of the utmost service to us, as it lasted, in small quantities, till well in the spring. Our provisions could be summed up as follows: - Four casks of bread, six barrels of salt provisions, five barrels of flour, one barrel of molasses and a little coffee. This was, but the greatest care, preserved, and we saved a cask of bread and one of beef and pork for a great emergency; and should we live through the winter, it was to be used in making the passage to a civilized port.
  We began to leave the ship about the 1st of December. I had made arrangements for the Innuits to take one or two men into each of their families, and care for them during the winter. These men could assist the natives in hunting the walrus, &c., and not be cumbersome to them. I remained on board of the vessel the best part of the time, but there was scarcely a day passed but a sledge visited the ship. Our crew were continually changing their places of abode, and this variety tended much to keep off ennui.
  On the 1st of May our old whaling ground in Frobisher's Bay was again occupied, and we were once more dwellers in tents. We were enabled by this time to procure all the walrus meat, ducks and eggs we wanted, and, of course, we were no longer a burden to our kind friends the Innuits.
  The whaling prospects were more discouraging than they were the season previous, and our spring season did not promise any good results. We cruised over the same ground, but it was of no avail. We were now anxiously looking for a chance to get our ice-bound bark out and return to our friends and home. We returned to the ship by the 8th of August, and on the 9th got under way, and after three days' hard pounding in the ice got clear and started for St. Johns, N. F., where we arrived on the 22d of August, 1862, after an absences of twenty-seven months.
  Mr. Hall proposes now to visit the West, taking with him the Innuit family, and delivering a series of lectures on Arctic life; then pushing on towards the East he hopes by spring to have accumulated sufficient funds to enable him to prosecute his proposed plans. He still clings to the hope that he may yet be enabled to discover some traces of the last days of Sir John Franklin and his party.
  Capt. Buddington is to be his sailing master and companion should he be so fortunate as to procure a suitable vessel in which to further prosecute his surveys.
  With two such men to prosecute so great a work there (?) be no doubt but much valuable information can (?) obtained.
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...Eliberg, who tendered every needed facility. Mr. Hall procured a team of Innuit dogs, eight in number. After leaving Holsteenberg we proceeded to a tract of coast not laid down in any admiralty chart, comprising O-kud-lea, Knew-gum-uke and the so-called Frobisher's Straits. We arrived at O-kud-lea August 7, 1860. On the 16th of August we went to Knew-gum-uke, where we stopped to take the fall whales. We found plenty of whales from the 1st to the 26th of September, but they were very wild and difficult to capture. At the latter date a heavy gale of wind set in, and the ice drove off the whales, and the George Henry was nearly lost. The Amaret, or Rescue, was lost, as was also Mr. Hall's boat. At this time we had taken two whales, and our prospects were very good to make a fine voyage, but the gale of wind put an end to the whaling for the season. It was now time to prepare for winter. The ice began to make, and everything betokened a hard winter season. By the 1st of November the whaling was entirely suspended for the season. During this winter Mr. Hall was engaged in his studies principally, although he made a journey to O-kud-lea, which occupied forty-three days. At this time he made his preliminary surveys of that coast, which he visited twice afterwards.
  During the winter months the crew of the bark were variously employed in ship's duty, and were worked so as to prevent, as much as possible, an attack of the scurvy. The natives were very kind to us, and their society tended much to make our Arctic life bearable.
  The spring opened with favorable weather, but it was intensely cold. On the 12th of March we commenced operations by sledging boats, casks, whaling gear and provisions over to Ob-bier-she-ping (whales, plenty of whales, off the land), twenty-two miles from the ship and in Frobisher's Bay. In the middle of May all hands, except one shipkeeper, were encamped at that place in tents made of the ship's sails. Our expectations at this time were very buoyant; but after weary watching we found that there was only plenty of ice and no whales; but we kept a bright lookout on the whole northern side of Frobisher's Bay until the 1st of August and only saw three whales, and they were going very rapidly up the bay.
  At this time Mr. Hall was engaged in surveying the coast line of Frobisher's Bay, and was absent all summer prosecuting that work. He had a whale boat and a crew of natives.
  As soon as the ice broke up we attempted to bring the ship around into Frobisher's Bay; but, after repeated attempts, we were unable to accomplish our purpose, and we were compelled to return to a harbor about five miles from our first winter quarters. There we were obliged to remain all the season, as the ice choked up the mouth of the bay and left only the head of it open for us to whale in. I have never seen the ice act in such a manner before, and I have been up there six winters. On the 19th of September the whales came in; but we did not take one until the 8th of October. Two more were captured before the 18th of the same month, so that our whaling season amounted to only ten days. On the 18th [[end column]]