The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-09-17
Mr.. Halls Arctic expedition.

The arrival of this expedition at s. Johns
has been announced by telegraph. The
Newfoundland papers contain additional in
teresting particulars, from which We learn
that Mr. Hall has secured large guam
tity Of relics of Frobishcr's expedition, gath
cred ut various points of his debarkation.
Among them are pieces of coal, brick and
wood. aud portion of an iron cannon ball,
probably used as ballast.
The coal has been overgrown with moss;
aud u dark vegetable growth; the brick
looks quite as bright rs when twas turned
out OF zone tallc ship of her Majestie's
named the AydC. of nine score tunnes or
thercabouts the vessel in which Fro
bishcr departed on his second voyage, after
having "kissod her Maicstes hand and
been dismissed with gracious countenance
and comfortable words The pieces of
| wood arc merely oak chips, which have been
well preserved, having been imbedded in
coal dust for nearly three hundred years
The piece of iron ballast is much decom-
posed and rusted
Mr.. Hall found upon one of the islands q
trench twenty feet deep and one hundred
| feet long, leading to the water, in which
party of Frobisher's men, who had been
captured by the EsQuimaux, and with the
| assistance of their captors, had built a
small vessel, intending therein to set sail
for England. After putting to sea they eX.
| perienced such severe weather that they
were obliged to return, 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 EsquimauS
of that region as a matter of tradition
Respecting the two boats crews ofFrunk-
| lin, Mr. Hall learned that few years since
a party of Innuits had seen two Codluna
| white men'S) boats, and found on one Of the
| Lower SAVAGE Islands (which commence
| near the mainland on tho north side of
| Hudson's Strait what they termed "soft
stones" One OF the Innuits, who had be-
come possessed of gun and ammunition
from the Hudson's Bay Company, recog-
nzed them as bullets.
| Sir john Franklin, not knowing how long
he might be detained in the Arctic seas,
! carried out large quantity of ammunition,
and Mr.. Hall has not a particle of doubt that
| the crews of these two boats, i'll their en-
deavor to get down through Hudsons
Strats, and on to Labrador, had thrown out
these bullets so that their progress might
not be impeded
Mr.. Hall has with him very interesting
Esquimaux family, consisting OF father,
mother aud son, who are excellent speci-
mems of their race. This family, excepting
the child have been i'll the civilized world
before They were taken across the At
Iantic to England some years ago. and pre-
sented to Her Majesty the Queen.
Mr.. Hall has a number of interesting me-
morals of the social life of the Innuits,
among whom he dwclt so long. They con-
sist Of little articles very neatly cut from
- tbn Nnln
seals, walrus ducks, &c. These show u
great deal OF patient perseverance with the
rude tools with which they must have been
worked. Mr.. Hall says life in these high
atitudes is not so difficult of preservation
as is generally supposed, the snow and ice
houses of the Innuits being exceedingly
| tight and comfortable, and their coarse an
imal food rendered exceedingly palatable by
the sharpness of appetite engendered by
the keen atmosphere of an extreme northern
climate.