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

THE LAST ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

'the Newfoundland papers furnish some informs`
tion respecting Mr. Hall's Arctic expedition, Or
plied by him on his arrival at St. John's, being
unable to further prosecute his mission in cense'
quence of the loss of some of his craft. it
appears that he has secured a large quantity of
relics of Frobisher's expedition gathered at varies!
points of his debarcation, Among them are pieee9
of coal, brick, and wood, and a portion of an iroa
cannon-ball, probably used as ballast. The Cosi
has been overgrown with moss and a dark vegs'
table growth ; the brick looks quite as bright a°
when it was turned out of " one talle ship of her
Majesties, named the Aude, of nine score tunnes st
thereabouts"—the vessel in which Frobisher de;
parted on his second voyage, "after having kiss':
her Majesties hand, and been dismissed with
gracious countenance and comfortable words." The
pieces of wood are merely oak chips which hail
been well preserved, having been imbeded in COcil
dust for nearly 300 years. The piece of iron ballast
is much decomposed and rusted. Mr. Hall foutis,
upon one of the islands a trench 20 feet deep and
100 feet long, leading to the water, in which a part,
of Frobisher's men who had been captured by Oa
Esquimaux, with the assistance of their captors hat
built a small vessel, intending therein to set sail fi;
England. After putting to sea they experience
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such severe weather that they were obliged to re,
turn, all of them being frost bitten, They lives,
many years among the Esquimaux, who treats
them very kindly, and all of them eventually died
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there. These facts are related by the Es(Pl`: ;
maux as a matter of tradition. Mr. Hall learns"
that a few years since a party of Innuits had see:
two Codluna (white men's) boats, and found on cli
of the Lower Savage Islands (which commence Deer
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the mainland on the north side of Hudson's Strait;
what they termed "soft stones." One of the Inuuli,
who had become possessed of a gun and amuislii
tion from the Hudson's Bay Company, recognise,
them as bullets. Sir, John Franklin, not 10%
ing how long he might be detained in
Arctic seas, carried out a large quantity of amui-,,at
tion, and Mr. Hall has not a particle of doubt t"0,
the crews of these two boats, in their enae d
your to get down through Hudson's Straits aua 0,
13t
to Labrador, had thrown out these bullets scoat
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their progress might not be impeded. Mr. P
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has with him an Esquirnaux family, consistinifber
father, mother, and son ; the father and we're,
were taken to England some years ago, and P%
sented to her Majesty. He has many interes.toe
memorials of the social life of the Innuits,
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articles very neatly cut from bone or ivory, rePet
renting the polar bear, seals, walrus, and Over
&c. These show a great deal of patient I,o° 00
ante with the rude tools with which they must oil
been worked. Mr. Hall says life in these 0 ill
latitudes is not so difficult of preservation 0
oi, tbe
supposed—the snow and ice houses
table,
Innuits
exceedingly tight and concift)rbie bi
ne
endetrhaY their be
coarse
sharpness of apetite engendered by tll„,eate/
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and
ing
animal food rendered pale joett
ta
t
atmosphere of an extreme northern el
k Montreal gazette, Sept. 12.