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[[margin]] 1860 Oct 24th Wednesday [[/margin]]

From this point, I proceede down through Bear Channel [[underlined]] (Bear Sound is a channel) [[/underlined]] into [[underlined]] Frobisher Bay [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] (Frobisher Strait is a myth! [[/underlined]] Let Geographers take note of this) thence to South side Queen Elizabeth's Meta Incognita, ^[[that]] is to North side Hudson's strait), thence westerly to Kings Cape, thence up the E. side Fox Channel, connecting the discoverings of Fox & Perry's, to the Strait of Fury & Hecla, thence across Gulf of Boothia to Victoria Harbor, where, or rather at an Esquimaux settlement in the interior at a place called Neitchville, I intend to make my head quarters for two years. During this time, I shall visit King Williams Land & every point of the peninsula of Boothia Felix, continuing & completing the history of Sir John Franklin & his Expedition.

You will confer a ^[[great]] favor, if you will, on arriving in England, with a ^[[personal]] letter to Henry Grinnell Esq of New York, giving him a statement of your meeting me here, the destruction of my Boat etc. etc.

Yours thankfully & Ever 
C F Hall

At XI 1/2 o'clock this letter was under seal going across Rescue Bay 
The Boats of the English are very different from the American Whale Boats probably twice as stout & 3 times as heavy! Take their appearance to-day. The English Boats were encumbered with much ice - ^[[both]] without & within while [[strikethrough]] that of [[/strikethrough]] ours are quite free. Somehow the model of the American Boats is such that they ride "like things of Life" upon the Billowing Waters without shipping water. They are light & buoyant! The English are loaded down heavily, not only with the additional material in their construction, but with heavier, larger line, harpoons & other instruments for whaling. A Whale gun (an adjunct to all ^[[Eng]] Whale Boats) is affixed at the Bow in readiness at all times for the match, the application of wh sends forth a gun harpoon that, if properly directed, enters the Whale & thus secures this monstrous game. The advantage ^[[claimed in]] a Harpoon-gun is that a Whale can be harpooned at a greater distance than without them. One fact may be stated. If the waters be rough when the guns are fired, there is but one chance in many that the Whale is made fast to. 

[[image]] (Position of Whale gun in Bow) of Eng Boats

Smith & his crew returned at 2 o clk P.M. having started at 12 (M) He found the Bay very rough wind blowing almost a gale.
Capt. Parker sends me a letter - also an invitation [[strikethrough]] from Capt. [[/strikethrough]] for me & Capt B. to visit him before he leaves.
He (Capt. P.) sends word that the letters received from "George Henry" will have to be prepaid by him on arriving at Eng. Therefore every one will have to [[underlined]] cash [[/underlined]] up in shape of tobacco or anything else equivalent to one shilling each. "John Bull" an Esquimaux of that ^[[nic-]] name ^[[(Chimachu [See Aug 22d] ]] to whom I have before referred was aboard the Eng. Ship. Parker said to Smith 'He is a terrible jealous fellow looking after & pounding his wife all the time.' His wife is the daughter of Cudlargo Kok-er-zhun. Her life ^[[or condition]] worse than any Esquimaux with whom I have become acquainted.