The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-01 00:00:00

THE LAST ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

The Newfoundland papers furnish some informa-
tion respecting Mr. Hall's Arctic expedition, sup-
plied by him on his arrival at Sr. John's, being
unable to further prosecute his mission in conse-
quence of the less of some of his craft. It
appears that he has secured a large quantity of:
relics of Frobisher's expedition gathered at various
points of his debarcation, Among them are piece%
of coal, brick, and wood, and a portion of an iron:
cannon-ball, probably used as ballast. The coal'•
has been overgrown with moss and a dark vege-
table growth; the brick looks quite as bright as
when it was turned out of " one talk ship of her
Majesties, named the Aude, of nine score tunnes or
thereabouts"—the vessel in which Frobisher de-
parted on his second voyage, "after having kissed
her Majesties hand, arid been dismissed with,
gracious countenance and comfortable words." The
pisces of wood are merely oak chips which have
been well preserved, having been imbeded in coal
dust for nearly 300 years. The piece of iron ballast
is much decomposed and masted. Mr. Hall found
upon one of the islands a trench 20 feet deep and
100 feet long, leading to the water, in which a party
of Frobisher's men who had been captured by the
Esquimaux, with the assistance of their captors had
built a small vessel, intending therein to set sail for
England. After putting to sea they experienced.
such severe weather that they were obliged to re
turn, all of them being frost bitten. They lived•
many years among the Esquimaux, who treated
them very kindly, and all of them eventually died
there. These facts are related by the Esqui-
maux as a matter of tradition. Mr. Hall learned
that a few years since a party of Innuits had sq.,,en
two Cedfuna (white men's) boats, and found on one
of the Lower Savage Islands (which commence near
the mainland on the north side of Hudson's Straits)
what they termed "soft stones." One of the Innuita
who had become possessed of a gun and ammuni-
tion from the Hudson's Bay Company, recognised
them as bullets. Sir John Franklin, not know-
ing ho air long ho might be detained in the
Arctic seas, carried out a large quantity of ammuni-
tion,and Mr. Hall has not a particle of doubt that
the crews of theme two boats, in their endea-
your to get down through Hudson's Straits and on
to Labrador, had thrown out these bullets so that
their progress might not be impeded. Mr. Hall
has with him an Esquimaux family, consisting of
father, mother, and son ; the father and mother
were taken to England some years ago, and pre-
sented to her Majesty. He bas many interesting
memorials of the social life of the Innuits, little
articles very neatly cut from bone or ivory, repre-
senting the polar bear, seals, walrus, and ducks,
&c. These show a great deal of patient peraeyer-
ance with the rude tools with which they must 110°
been worked. Mr. Hail says life in these high
latitudes is not so difficult of preservation es 1°
generallybeing
suPPosed—the snow and ice houses of tlle
I execdieg!y tight and comforts.,
and their coarse animal food rendered palatable 11
the sharpness of apetite engendered by the ly=cll
atmosphere of au extreme n9rtiluti
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