The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-03
WINTER QUARTERS, IN IgLoo Friday Dec; 10, '6l.l
Noo-WooE, WEST rNn ROWS WELCOME.

Lat GIG n. lon 81 20W |
DEAR FRIEND CHAPEL--In this let |
ter have some deGpy interesting intel |
Hgcace to communicate TO you. Since |
falling in with the natives | have not |
been idle. Nothing in Parry's narrative
OF second voyage for the discovery of n.
w. passage relating to the Esquimaux of
Winter Island and Igloolik, but these
natives are perfectly posted up. Indeed,
| find through my superior Interpreter,
Too koo-li-too, that many deeply inter |
esting incidents occurred at both named |
places that never found their place in |
Parry or Lyons works. But the great |
work already done by me is gaining lit |
tie by little of these natives through Too |
koo-li-too, and E-bier-bing relating to |
81. JohH FiuRhlin'S EapedHiop. This |
you know was the great object of my
mission to the North, ] cannot stop TO
tell you now all | have gained of this
pcople--nO, not the one hundredth part
most of il relating TO Franklin's EX-
petition.
The natives are now loading sledge-
it is o'clock, 80 minutes A NJ.
] will give you very briefly what the
people of England and America will be
most interested TO learn. When | come
down shall bring my dispatches and
journals up to the time of writing you.
These will be committed to your care for
transmitting to the States. The most
important matter that | have acquired
relates to the fact that there may yet be
three atrUiC0rs of Sir John Franklins
Fxpedition--and one of these--Cro2icr,
! the one who succeeded Sir John Frank
| lin on his death. The details are deep
| ly interesting-but this may suffice till
| Z H.,
with him were found by cousin of OH
ella (Albert), Sh6S-si,e ark-nuhi John
and Ar-foo a Frank while moving on
! the ice from one igIoo to another, this
cousin having with him his family and
engaged in sealing. This occurred near
Neitch-il lie (Bouthia Felix Peninsula).
| Crozier was nothing but "skin and
bones'-was nearly starved TO DEATH
, while the three men with him were fat.
| The cousin soon learned that the three
| fat men had been living on human
i,esh--on the flesh of their compan~
ions, who all deserted the two ships that
| were fast in mountains of ice. while Gro
zier was the only man that would not en-
human flesh, and for this reason he wa
almost dead from starvation. Thi
cousin, who has two names (but | can
not stop to give them now took CroZie
and the three men at once in charge
He soon caught a seal, and gave Croziel
quickly little--a very little piece, which
was raw--only one mOuthful the frs
day. The cousin did not give the three
fat men anything, for they could wei
get along till Crozier's life was safe. The
next day the cousin gave Cfozier little
larger niece of same seal. BY the Judi
cious care of this cousin for Crozier, his
I .nxra1 InIanI ffpnri.ts'G
Judgment stuck to him in this terrible
Situation, for he agreed with the cousin
that one little bit was all heshould have
the first day. When the cousin first saw
Cro2er's face it looked so bad--his eyes
all sunk in, the face so skeleton-lille ant
hacgari-that he, the cousin. did not
dare to look upon CroZier's face for seve
raj DAYS after; it made him, the cousin
feel so bad This noble cousin. whom
the whole civilized world will ever re-
member for humanity, took care Of Gro
Zier and his three men, save one who
died, through the whole winter. One
man, however, died short time altci
the cousin found them, not be-
cause he starved, but because he
was sick. In the spring, Croziel
and the remaining two men ac-
conlpanied this cousin on the Bouthia
| Felix Peninsula to Neitchille, where
there were many Innuits. CroZier and
each of his men had guns and n plenty
of ammunition, and many pretty things.
| They killed great many ducks, now
yers, &C., with their guns. Here they
| lived with the Innuits at Neitchille, and
Crozier become fat and of good health.
Crozier told this cousin that he was once
at Jnnol-le (Repuise Bay, at Winter Is
| V,lnnlil- hafnra
and ut the two last named places he saw
many Innuts, and got acquainted with
them. This cousin had heard of Parry,
Lyon and Crozier of his Inuuit friends
at Repulse Bay, some years previous,
and therefore when CrO2ier gave him
his name he recollected it. The cousin
saw Crozier, one year before he found
him and the three men, where the tive
ships were in the ice. 1t was there thai
the cousin found out that CroZier hao
been to Igloolik.
Crozier and the two men lived Will
the Neitchille Innuits some time. Ih'
Innuits liked him (C.J very much, aEt
treated him always very kindly. A
length Crozier, with his two men ant
one Innuit who took along Xxi ak {?
AN India rubber boat, as E-Bier- bling
thinks it was, for all along the ribs there
was something that could be filed witt
air. left Neitcnilie to try to go to the
Kob-lu-nas country, taking a soutL
course.
When Ou-e-la Albert and his broth
ers. in 1851, saw this cousin that hac
been so good to CroZier and his men, al
Pelly Bay (which is not far from Neitch'
ille), the cousin had not heard whether
CruZier andvhe two men and Neitchillt
Innuit had ever come back or not. The
Innuits never think. they are dead-d'
not believe they are. Crozier offered L
give his gun to the cousin for saving hi
life, but the cousin would not accept II
{ for he was afraid it would kill him (th
co,lsinl, it made such great noise, AM
> killed everything with nothing. Til
Crozier gave him (the couain) a long
Il curious knife Sword, as E-bier-bing an
'' zoo koo-li-too say it was, and gave hir
- many pretty things besides. 1.-THE dog
, are ali i'll harness, and siedges loade
and Innuits waiting for my letters.
, promise to be ready in thirty minutes
rrozier told the cousin of fight with
hand of Indians-not Innuits but Il
diaps This must have occurred ne
the entrance of Great Fish or Back
River. More of this when | see You.
God bless you,
k C.. F. HALL.
D Commenting on the above the NJ
York Journal of Commerce observes