Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-09-18

oeen known uv tne Wndlemen VINO frequent
its locality but they supposed il to be
strait But no official change has been made
by any government,
Mr.. Hall has very large and carefully
prepared chart of this bay, and will in due
time publish it to the world but at the pres.
ent time he deems it proper to withhold its
features.
In 1851 his explorations were renewed
with energy be had become acelimated,
and was fully alive to the amount of work
which was before him. whalebost was
now procured from the George Henry, aud
with a crew of six lnnuits, male and female,
he started on his northern Journey. The
natives take their families with them when on
these expeditions, aud the women pull an oar
with the men. Dogs are also OF the compa-
ny, and several native boats are taken for the
purpose OF hunting and fishing with, Thus
provided with personet and mdteriel they
started, living on prepared food in small
quantities, but mainly depending upon the
game captured ON the way.
MIR. Hall went to Countess Of Warwick
Sound, and after much difficulty succeeded
in discovering the place where Frobisher at
tempted to plant colony. A considerable
tiut was spout Itiits vi lHdt
i'll fated colony. AT nearly every place of
their debarkation, relics were found, consist
ing of pieces of coal, brick, wood, and por-
ton of cannon shot, which might have been
used as boat ballast.
| The coal had been oyergrown with moss,
and edark vegetable growth; the brick
| looked quite fresh and new, the wood was
simply chips, which, although embedded in
the coal dust for nearly three years.
are well preserved. The piece of iron is
we'll worn with the rust of many years,
One OF the most papable facts in counec-
ton with the discovery of these people of we
oden time is that Mr. Hall discovered
trench twenty feet deep and one hundred
feet long, species of dry dock, leading
to the water, In this excavation the party
| OF Frobisher's men who were captured by tne
| Esqulmaux on his first voyage, with the as
sistance of some of their captors, built
| a small vessel, in which they were to embark
and sail for England. In due time she was
| completed and put to sea, but heavy weather
coming on, aud their vessel proving unsea-
| worthy, they we're Obliged to return. All of
this crew were severely frost bitten, De-
sparing of ever reaching their native land,
! and being severely frost bitten, the caplives
soon died.
The facts of their mode of living and at
| tempts to reach England were gathered from
the Iunuits. Mr., Hall says that the tradi--
| tional histories of the Esquimaux are remar-
kably clear and explicit, and can be relied
| on TO the greatest extent and | bolieve that
| those who have been familiar with this class
of people coincide in the same opinion,
The information respecting the fate of
Of two otthe boats crews of Sir John Frank
Inns expedition is not vet as clear as could
be desired. The facts are these
While on ON Of his sledge Journeys, in
lS6l-tor he has made several--a party of
strange InnutS came to his stopping place,
and from them he learned that three years
ago two boats crews came down Huason's
Straits, bound through the straits. Three
men, 'eudlemas,' or white men, stopped on
one of the Lower Savage Islands (which lie
near tina mainland on the north side of Hud-
sons Straits,) and here they lett what the
Innuits Called soft stones One of the ma
tiyes, who knew the use of firearms, saw the
soft stones" and pronounced them to be
leaden bullets. All traces of these men were
subsequently lost, and Mr.. Hall. not know
ing the Kitty, Hudson's Bay Company's
ship, had been lost there five years previous
ly, supposed the two boats crews to be
portion of the Sir John Frankhn's expedi-
ton, from the fact that that regretted explo.
rer, not knowing Row long he might be de-
tanned inIthe ice had lain ina very large sup
ply of ammunition and leaden bullets, and that
quantities had been taken in the boats
when they left the larger vessels; and in
their endeayors to to get through Hudson's
Straits, and on to Labrador, they had thrown |
away all the cumbersome articlet, and thus
the bullets came in this place. OF this mat
ter Mr.. Hall will make some further search
es be fore he will permit his differences to |
have TOO great weight on his narrative.
Mr.. Hall has discovered a very large and |
Interesting mountain OF fossils at the head of |
Frobisher's Bay, x ien has furnished him
the materials for an extensive scientific arti- |
Gle on that abtruse subject.
He also discovered an immense glacier
near Queen Elizabeth,s Land. This he
named the 'Grnnel glacier in honor OF Mr.
Henry Grlnnel. 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 Esqui-
maux. E-bier-blng, the husband, is fine
looking fellow, about twenty four years of
age, but he is not so large and good looking
as was Cabbage. Tuk-oo. h-tooi the wife, is
about the same age of her husband, and is
the Interpreter She is the best interpreter
in the Arctic regions. Her knowledge of the
country and its traditions is wonderful, and
any explorer would feel justly proud of her
services. Tux er-lik-e-ts, the infant child, is
one year old and Is fine child.
The father & mother went to England some
years ago and were pre- sented to the Queen.
They, OF course, are no. so much surprised at
seeing civilized country