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1862
May
25
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Ebierbing & his Noo-loo-an-a, Tuk-oo-li-too, will return ^[[home]] in season for their accompanying me to America.  I ^[[am to]] take them with the especial object of having them accompany me on my still determined expedition to King Williams Land wh. I hope to resume soon after visiting the States.  I hope in what I have done here North in way of Explorations & discovering the relics of Frobisher's Expedition of near 2 Centuries ago, & determining the fates of the party of 5 [[strikethrough]] white [[/strikethrough]] of his Company wh. he lost - here, as well as fixing the precise places of his (Frobisher's) Fleet anchorage & landing, that I shall have no insurmountable obstructs to overcome in making a complete preparations for that Voyage wh. I still have at heart -the Voyage to King William Land & Boothia to investigate all the facts relative to Sir John Frobisher Expedition while in the vicinity of the places named.  That the Innuits are still living who know all about the termination of that Expedition.  [[underlined]]  I have not a shadow of a doubt. [[/underlined]] What is requisite is to visit those regions - get acquainted ^[[with &]] establish friendly relations [[underlined]] among [[/underlined the Innuits there - become familiar with their language & then learf on them the history of that Expedition - & perchance learn that some of that Expedition are still living among this (the Innuit) people - rescue them & return them to their Country & Honors.  From an experience now of near two years among this people,this nations of the North, I know it is possible that there are survivors of Sir John Franklin's ^[[Expedition]] [[strikethrough]] to be found [[/strikethrough]] among the Esquimeaux of Boothia [[on or or]] [[blue pencil bracket in left margin]] King-Williams Land!  The five men lost by Frobisher in 1576 certainly must have lived there 3 [[strikethrough]] months [[/strikethrough]] years or about that time, among the Innuits - & during that time, from [[/blue pencil bracket in left margin]]
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1862
May
25th
+ [[for Sunday\\
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The traditionary history now extant among the Innuits in this region these 5 white men were kindly group [[?nicely ?treated]] by the natives who gave them provisions in abundance & finally assisted them in making preparations for departing to their own Country.  But unhappily these 5 men attempted to plough the water of the Bay Frobisher in their schooner wh. they had built out of the material wh. Frobisher's Colony - Expedition had left on the IslandNi-oun-to-lik (Countess of Warwick's Island) ^[[and perhaps drift timber from the ship wh. Frobisher lost]] too early in the season, the consequences being that the ice closed around their vessel & swept [[strikethrough]] their [[/strikethrough]] ^[[ it ]] back, the cold weather so intense that they ^[[ [[? ? ]]enduring their exposure]] [[strikethrough]] because [[strikethrough]] because badly frozen so that they all died from the effect of it, on Kod-lu-narn Island though the Innuits strove noble heartedly to save them from their sad end by making them comfortable Igloo & furnishing to them in their sad condition.  E-LOUD-JU-ARNG is the name of one Innuit that is handed down by this people as having been foremost in exercising multitudenous kindness to these 5 Kod-lu-narns - not only was he great in his humanitarianism acgts but he caused others to follow his example & attend faithfully to his philanthropic commands.  As his name has been perpetuated near three Centuries by his (E-land-ju-arng's people for his great goodness to White Man, May the Civilizsed World catch it & make it as enduring as the everlasting mountains among wh. this noble Innuit had his Home.  "E-laud-ju-arng" will be a name always dear to me for it bespeaks of him who once lived & even done most noble deeds!
The story told me to-night by Tuk-oo-li-too - of the 1st Innuit - the [[?Stone]] Innuit with  Took-too jacket & seal skin Kod-lings - now to be seen ^[[at Oo-kood-lear!
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Transcription Notes:
Boothia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boothia_Peninsula Occasionally Hall avoids overwriting a bad ink bleed-through from other side of page by writing above the bleed-through. This sometimes appears as a strike-through when it isn't. See first line on this journal page 153. Ink bleed-through is a problem on many pages. Bearing in mind Hall was probably writing with frozen fingers most of the time, with a pen nib, and had to keep his ink bottle in his sleeping bag to keep it from freezing, it is possible that the Journal paper (check writing paper) provided by two friends was not well chosen. It was 1860!