The Portland daily press., 1862-10-16
MISCELLANY.
Return of an Arctic Explorer.

The barque George Henry, Capt Budding
ton, arrived at New London, Conn, early in
the morning of the 18th ult.. having on board
Mr.. c. F. Hall, the Arctic explorer, whose his
tory of his expedition is very interesting We
find the following statement in the correspond
ence of the New York Herald:
ale arrived in the Arctic regions late in
1860, and the seas were so free from ice, he
was anxious to Immediately proceed with his
mission; but, Notwithstanding the bright as
pect of affairs, he wisely took counsel of the
Esquimaux, who would not consent to make
up boat party for the purpose Of prosecuting
the work.
The intervening time was occupied in learn
ing the Innuit or Esguimaux language from
the natives who by their contact with the
whalemen, he was soon enabled to understand
and to be understood.
In matters of clothing and food Mr.. Hall
adopted the Innuit style, and was dressed in
skins and was fed upon raw me ats, with due
share of bubber.
During the long and weary winter months.
Mr.. Hall was not idle for with his boat he set
tied the fact that Frobisher's Strait was only a
deep indentation or bay. On the DIST of Aug
ust, 1861, he stood on the high land at the
Northern shore, and saw the whole sweep of
land around the bay. On the 9th of Septem-
Der, 1861, the fra boat upon which he SO much
depended, was totally lost.
Mr.. Hall returned TO the George Henry, and
learned that the schooner Rescue or sAmera,'
tender to the barque, had been lost in the
gale of the 9th September.
In 1861 his explorations were renewed with
energy. He had become acclimated, and was
fully alive to the amount of work which was
before him. A whaleboat was now procured
of the George Henry, and with Il crew of six
Innuts, male and female, he started on his
Northern journey. The natives take their
families with them when on these expeditions,
and the women pull an oar with the men.
Dogs are also of the company, and several ma
tive boats are taken for the purpose Of hunt
ing and fishing with. Thus provided with
personnel and materiel they started, living on
prepared food, in small quantities, but mainly
depending upon the game captured on the
way.
Mr.. Hall went to the Countess of Warwick
Sound, and after much difficulty succeeded in
finding the place where FrobIsher attempted
to plant a colony. A considerable time was
spent here in obtaining relics of that Inflated
colony. At nearly every place of their debark-
alton relics were found consisting of pieces of
coal, brick, wood, and portion OF cannon
shot which might have been used as boat
ballast.
The coal had been overgrown with moss,
and a dark vegetable growth the brick looked
quite fresh and new, the wood was simply
chips, which, although embedded in the coal
dust for nearly three hundred years, well
preserved. The piece of iron is well worn
with the rust OF so many years.
One of the most palpable facts in connection
with the discovery of these people of ''ye OIL
den time" is that Mr.. Hall discovered trench
twenty feet deep, and one hundred feet long. Il
species OF dry dock leading down to the wa
ter. In this excavation the party of Frobish-
er's men who were captured By the Esquimaux
on his first voyage, with the assistance OF some
of their captors, built small vessel, in which
they were to embark aud sail to England. In
due time she was completed and put to sea,
but heavy weather coming on, aud their vessel
proving unseaworthy, they were obliged TO
turn. All of this crew were severely FROST
bitten. Despairing of ever reaching their ma
tive land, and being severely frost-bitten, the
cap1ives soon died.
The information respecting the fate of two
of the boats crews of Sir John Frankn's ex-
petition is not yet as clear as could be desired
The facts are these
While on one Of his sledge Journeys, In 1861
for he has made SEVERAL party Of strange
lnnuits came to his stopping place, and from
them he learned that three years ago two
boats crews came down Hudson's Straits
bound through the straits. These men, 'cud-
leinas,' or white men, stopped on one of the
Lower Savage Islands, (which lie near the
main land on the north side of Hudson's
Strai:s,) and here they left what the Innuits
called soft stones.' One of the natives, who
knew the Use OF firearms, saw the soft stones
and pronounced them to be eaden bullets
All traces of these men were subsequently,
lost and Mr.. Hall, not knowing that the Kitty,
Hudson Bay Company's ship, had been lost
there five years previously supposed these two
boats crew TO be portion of the Sir John
franklin expedition, from the fact that that re-
GREETED explorer, not Knowing how long he
might be detained in the ice. had laid in very
large supply OF ammunition and leaden bullets
and that quantities had been taken in the boats
when they left the larger vessels; and that In
their endeavors to get through Hudson's
Straits, and on to Labrador. they had thrown
away all cumbersome articles, and thus the
bullets came in this place.
Mr.. Hall has discovered very large and in
teresting mountain of fossils at the head of
Frobisher's Bay, which has furnished him the
materials for an extensive scientific article on
that obstruse subject.
He also discovered an immense glacier near
Queen Elizabeth's Land. This he named the
"Grinnel glacier in honor of Mr.. Henry Grin
mel. 1t exceeds three thousand feet in hight,
Is one hundred miles long and fifty miles in
width.
Mr.. Hall has brought home with him very
Interesting family of Innuits, or Esqumaux-
E-bier-bing, the husband is fine looking fell
low, about twenty-four years of age, but he is
not so large and good looking as was Cad la-go
Tuk-oo-h-too, the vile, is about tho same age
as her husband, and is the interpreter She is
the best interpreter in the Arctic regions.
Her knowledge of the country and its tradi-
lions Is wonderful, and any explorer would feel
justly proud of her services. Tuk-er-lik-e-ta,
the infant child, is one year old, and Is fine
child. The father and mother went to Eng
land some years ago and were presented to the
Qneen. They, of course, are not much sur
prised at seeing civilized country"