The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-21 00:00:00

HALL'S ARCTIC JOURNEY.

This explorer, who returned to New Bedford on
the 26th of September from a five years' search,
wrote to Mr. Grinnell, through whose enterprise
and generosity he was equipped for his arduous and
dangerous task. The letter is dated Repulse Bay,
Jane 20, 1869, on his return from a 90 days'
sledge journey to and from King William's Land.
He had previously visited Melville Peninsula, in
the vicinity of Fury and Hecla Straits, where he
found in Parry Bay a tenting place of white men,
and a white pillar they had built. The informa-
tion he gained from the natives confirmed what
be had heard in the winter of 1867-68, and his
journey to King William's Land fully established its
truth. None of Sir John Franklin's party reached
Montreal Island. In July, 1848, Crozier, with 45
men, passed down the west coast of King William's
Laud, dragging two sledges on the sea ice, one
with an awoing•covered boat, and the other with
provisions and camp material. They were met by
four families of natives, of whom two gave Captain
Hall the information. The Esquiwaux secretly
deserted after camping with Crozier's party, and
suffered them to die, when they might easily have
been saved, as game abounded, which they were in-
capacitated to kill by scurvy. The first trace of
the party from this is the skeleton found by M'Clin-
tock, near Cape Hershell ; then comes a camping
place three miles east from Pfeffer River, where two
men had died and received Christian burial. Fish
bones showed that an excellent species had been
there caught and eaten by the party. Five miles to
the east a long low point marks the burial ground of
another man ; and two and a half miles further, on
Todd's Islet, five men have their last resting-place.
Again, at Point Richardson, on low land, the awn-
ing covered boat and the remains of 30 or 35 of
Crozier's party were found by the native, Poo-
yet-ta. In the spring of 1849 a large tent was
discovered at the head of Terror Bay by some
of the men Captain Hall had met; the floor
beino• strewn with the remains of many white men,
and outside were two graves. It was not till
the spring of 1861 that a boat overlooked by
by M'Clintock, probably because then hidden in
snow, was seen by an Esquintaux party about half a
mile from whereM'Cliutock had found the other. In
and about the boat were several skeletons and relics
similar to those enumerated by M'Clintock. The
'native, who conducted the Esquimaux over King
William's Land, is the man who gave Dr. Rae the
information of where the party bad died, and Hall
terms him a walking history of the fate of Sir John
Franklin's expedition, and he accompanied Captain
Hall in his explorations of King William's Land :

" The same year that the Erebus and Terror were aban-
doned one of them consummated the Great North-West
Passage, having five men aboard. The evidence of the
exact number is circumstantial. Everything about this
North-West Passage ship of Sir J. Franklin's Expedition
was in complete order; four boats were hanging high up
at the ship's sides, and one was on the quarter-deck; the
vessel was in its Winter housing of sail or tent cloth.
This vessel was found by the Ook-joo-lik natives near
O'Reilly Island, lat. 68 min. 30 deg. N., long. 99 min. 8
min. W. early in the spring of 1819, it being frozen in, in
the midst of a smooth and unbroken floe of ice of only one
Winter's formation. From certain evidence I have gained
both at Ig-100-lik and King William's Laud, there must
have been a dog of the greyhound species belonging to
one or the other of the two ships. I only know this
through native testimony. It is quite likely that some
one in England can tell whether there was a dog on
board either of the ships when Sir John Franklin left
in 1845."

With Captain Hall there were eleven Esquimaux,
but nothing could induce them to remain over the
summer to prosecute the search. The natives of
King William's Land bear a very bad character,
and Captain Hall considers that most probably he
would not have escaped the fate of Crozier's party
had he remained. Wherever the natives have found
the graves of Franklin's companions the bodies have
been dug up and robbed ; and it was one of Captain
Hall's tasks to re-bury them, to fire salutes, and
wave over them the Star-Spangled Banner, erect-
ing monuments to the true discoverers of the North-
West Passage. He reached within 75 miles of the
vault, a little inland of Cape Victory, where the
logs and journals of Sir John Franklin's expedition
are suppose I to be buried ; but unfortunately a
stampede of his natives forced him to relinquish
the prize, which he feels certain could be secured
by a well-equipped party working in the summer,
when the snow is off the ground. Relics of the
expedition are widely scattered among the natives,
and Hall brought what he could carry, one being
the chronometer box, with its number, name of
maker, and the Queen's broad arrow engraved upon it.
There is an elaborately finished mahogany writing
desk, silver fork, and spoons, with the initials and
crests of their owners. In his expeditions from
Repulse Bay a tragic event occurred. In 1865 he
started on a dog-sledge journey to King William's
Laud with a party of natives, and when 200 miles
on their road they were met by men fleeing from a
war raging in Pelly Bay, whereupon his men turned,
and nothing would induce them to proceed. To
make his future operations more certain he en-
deavoured to get a small band of white men out of
whaling ships, and he only succeeded at the last
moment in the autumn of 1867, when the whites
were leaving the Bay. Frank Lailer proved of the
five a faithful, hard-working, energetic man, but
two turned out to be desperate characters, and
when his faithful friend Lailer was absent on some
buSiness a mutinous attack was made on Hall, who,
in self-defence, was obliged to shoot Coleman, the
leader, and in this man's death the rebellion ended.
This event seems to have cast a gloom over the ex-
pedition,
but it had no influence in cooling ci.p.
Hall's love of adventure. His great desire. COW is
ito reach the North Pole, and it is prota-bie that an
expedition will be started next su',Amer for this ob-
ject, aided by Government.
the manuscript said
to be found at San Buer_dventura, on the coast of
California, contains nothing inconsistent with Cap-
tain re,,‘,-
rt. As far as can be deciphered
that docu
went is as follows :
1

" Her l'iriajesty's ships Erebus and Terror, May 28, 1847.
Tvintered in the ice in lat. 70 deg. 5 min. N., long. 98
deg. 23 min. W.

" Having wintered in 1845-6 at Beechy Island in lat. 74
dog. 43 min. 28 sec. N., long. 91 deg. 39 min. 15 socs. W.,
after having ascended Wellington Channel to lat. 77 deg.,
and returned by the west side of Cornwallis Island.
" Sir John Franklin commanding the Expedition. All
well.

"Party consisting of two officers and six men left the
ships on Monday, 24th May, 1847.
"GRAHAM GORE, Lieutenant.
CHARLES F. DES VOEUX, Mate."
Around the margin and on the available space out-
side the printing the following is inscribed :

" Her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror were deserted on
the 22d of April, five leagues N.N.W. off here, having been
last seen September 12, 1846. The officers and crew, con-
sisting of 105 souls, under the command of Captain F. R.
M. Crozier, landed here in lat. 69 deg. 37 min. 42 secs.
N., long. 98 deg. 41 min. W. Sir John Franklin died on
the 11th June, 1847, and the total loss by death in the
Expedition has been to this date nine officers and 15 men.
" F. R. M. CROZIER, Captain and Senior Officer.
" JAS. FITZJAMES, Captain, her Majesty's ship
Erebus.
" And start on to-morrow, 26th, for Back's Fish River."

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