Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-10-12
Three of Sir john Eranlx1ln's Men Sup
posed to be Alive

Three of Sir john F'rankIln's Men Sup
posed TO be Alive
Henry Grinnell, Esq, has received 8
letter which Mr.. Hall wrote to Capt.
| Chapel, to be forwarded to Mr.. Grinnell,
from which we are permitted to extract:
| WINTER ouARrEss IN IsLoo, Dec. 10th, 1884,
Noo.Wook, West End, Rowe's Welcome,
| Lat. "a 4e NJ, long. 81 20 W.
DEAR FRIEND CHAPEL-In this letter
have some deeply interesting intelligence
| to communicate to you. Since falling in
with the natives / have not been idle.
| Nothing in Parry's narrative of his second
| voyage for the discovery of the northwest
passage relating to the Esquimaux Of
| Winter Island and Igloolik, but these ma
tives are perfectly posted up. Indeed, [
| find, through my superior interpreter,
| Too-koo- i-too, that many deeply interest
ing incidents occurred at both named
| places that never found their place in
Parry's or Lyons works. But the great
work already done by me is gaining little
| by little Of these natives, through Too
koo-i-too and E-bier-t ting, relating to Sir
| john Franklin's expedition. This, you
know, was the great object of my mission
to the North. | cannot stop to tell you
now all have gained of this peopls-no,
not the one hundredth part-most of it re-
lating to Franklin's expedition.
| fThe natives are now loading sledge-it
is seven o'clock thirty minutes A. N.
| | will give you very briefly what the
people of England and America will be
most interested to learn. When / come
down l 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 i'm
portant matter that have acquired relates
| to the fact that there may yet be three sur
vivors of Sir John Franklin's expedition
| and one of these Crozier, the one who sue
ceeded Sir John Franklin on his death.
The details are deeply interesting, but this
must suffice until come down :-Crozier
and three men with him were found by q
cousin of On-e-la (Albert), shoo-she- ark
NUM- (John and Ar-too- a Frank }, while
moving on the ice from one igloo to an
other, this cousin having with him bis
family and engaged in sealing. This oc-
Cured near Neitchille Bouthia Felix Pen
insulal. Crozier waSeaothing but "skin
| and bonesn-was nearly starved to death
| while the three men were fat. The cousin
| soon learned that the three fat men had
been living on human f1esh-on the flesh
of their companions, who all deserted the
two ships that were fast in mountains of
iee-while Crozier was the only man who
| would not eat human flesh, and for this
reason he was almost dead from starva-
ton. This cousin, who has two names
(but cannot stop to give them now took
| Crozier and three men Mt once in charge.
He soon caught seal, and quickly gave
Crozier a little-a very little piece, which
was raw-only one mouthful the first day.
The cousin did not give the three fat men
anything-for they could we'll get along
till CroZier's life was safe. The next day
the cousin gave Crozier little larger piece
Of same seal. BY the iudcious care of this
cousin for Crozier his life was saved. In
decd, Crozier's own judgment stuck to
him in this terrible situation; fer he agreed
with the cousin that one little bit was all
he should have the first day. When the
cousin saw CreZier's face it looked so bad
his eyes all sunk in, the face so skeleton
like and haggard he (the cousin
did not dare TO look upon Crozier's face for
several days after; it made him the cousin
feel 80 bad. This noble cousin, whom the
whole civilized world will ever remember
for humanity, took care of Crozier and his
three men, save one who died, through the
whole winter. One man, however, died u
short time after the cousin found them
not because he starved, but because he was
sick. In the spring, CroZier and the re-
naming two men accompanied this cousin
on the Bouthia Felix Peninsula to Nett
chile, where there were many Innuits
Crozier and each Of his men had guns and
plenty of ammunition, and many pretty
things. They killed great many ducks,
nowyers, &c, with their guns. Here they
lived with the Innuits at Neitchelle, and
Crozier became fat and of good health.
Crozier told this cousin that he was once
at Innoll-le (Repulse Bayl, at Winter
Island and Igloolik many years before,
and that at the two last named places he
saw many Innuits, and got acquainted
with them. This cousin had heard of
Parry, Lyon and Crozier of his Innuit
friends at Repulse Bay, some years previ-
Gus, and therefore when Crozier gave him
his name he recollected it. The cousin
saw Crozier one year before he found him
and the three men, where the two ships
were in the ice. 1t was there that the
cousin found out that Crozier had been to
Igloolik.
Crozier and the two men lived with the
Neitchille Innuits some time. The In
treated him always very kindly. At
length Crozier, with his two men and one
Innuit, who took along ki-ak (?)-fan
India rubber boat, as E-bier-bing thinks it
was, for all along the ribs there was some-
thing that could be filled with ir1-lsft
Neitchille to try to 60 to the Kob-lu-nas
country, taking south course.
When One Ia Albert and his brothers
in 1854, saw this cousin that had been SO
good to Crozier and his men, at Polly Bay
| (which ia NOT far from Neitnhille9 the
cousin had not heard whether Crozier and
the two men and Neitchille Innult had
ever come back or not. The Innuits never
think they are dead-do not believe they
are. Crozier offered to give his gun to the
I cousin for saving his life, but the cousin
would not accept it, for he was afraid it
/ yunl,ld I'LL him the cnusinl II N ada such