Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-10-03
CAPT. HALL HEARD FRoM.

ihOdkEss OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION -
TRACES OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN
The Journal Of Commerce has the follow
ing:
BY whaling-vessel arrived at New
London from the Arctic Ocean, we have adj
vices from Capt. C. II. Hall, the explorer,
who left the United States in 1864, under the
patronage of Henry Grinnell, Esq, of this
city: Hr. Halls letters were expressed 15O
miles over the ice by dog-sledges to reach
the open sea. He writes in good spirits,
having obtained much valuable information
in regard TO the Franklin Expeditions. The
journal of which he speaks has not reached
Mr. Grinnell, but may be expected at any
time on the arrival of ships from Hudson's s
Bay. Mr. Hall expects to spend most of his
time in King Williams Land and on Boothie
Felix Peninsula, and desires that vessel
shall be sent in the Spring of 1867 to bring
him home. Three years spent as proposed
in the huts of the Esquimaux with good ma
tive interpreters who accompany Mr.. Hall in
his wanderings, ought to be sufficient to clear
up all mystery respecting the lost navigator
Mr.. Halls letter is dated
"SNow HOUSE,
On THE COAST LINE ON RoE's WELCOME,
Lat. Ga, 40 N, lon. 81, 80 w.
"'DEAR SIR: This is to be a very briet
letter for various reasons. First and
most important is, that by the time you re-
ceive this you will have in hand my
journal books up to about the last of August,
which will make it quite unnecessary for me
to say anything more than to make this, as
intended, a business letter to accompany
some orders that have been drawn on you.
:! Last December, company of natives
among whom had wintered here, took
down to the ship for me some musk OK and
polar bear skins, which were accepted by
Capt. c., on account for rifles, guns and an
opera glass that requested him to supply to
these natives. Capt c. says that it may be
that the said skins can perhaps be sold to
such advantage on his return to the States
that they will fully equal his bill
81 have written Captain c. three long
letters since have been in Winter quarters
here; two of them written in December,
1864, and sent together by party of natives,
who reached the ship that month, making
the trip by means of dogs and sledges. The
third letter is to be taken by native whom
l sent down to the ships to take the letters
of Captain c. and Captain t. and this, and
to get the boat which Captain T., of the An
telope, is to let me have for one of the best
Inuits ever met This Inuit has greatly
aided me and my two Inuit companions, and
agrees to help us as long as we remain in the
country for this boat.
The letters of Captain Q. and Captain
T. request shall be furnished you on theii
arrival home for perusal. have letters par
TALLY written for you, the Associated Press
&c, but on finding that l shall be obliged tC
spend part of the next Winter at Repulst
Bay, / decided to retain them and send yoi
all my journals next Fall .ae
Although on the very threshold of tina
portion of the country where so much of in
terest transpired connected with Sir JOIN
Franklin's expedition, you will find by my
| journals that | have acquired from the ma
tives among whom we have Wintered very
much of most valuable information abou
that expedition and its termination. l thinl
you will feel, as you read that information
as written down in my journal at the time
was communicated, that you and are
hundredlold repaid for all our anxieties
trouble and expense in accomplishing 8
much. think l will succeed in doing al
my work on King Williams Landing an
Boothie Felix Peninsula by the end of til
Winter of 1S6G-67. would like to hay
you secure an interview with Captain G.
and see if he cannot be furnished with
schooner to come up after me and two con
panions next year to Repulse Bay, so as I
return in the Fall of 1867 A part of tn
next Winter, the whole of the Summer {
1866, and nearly all the Winter of 1866
will ID. W be spent on King William
Land and Boothie Felix Peninsula, and i
the Spring of 1867 shall make our return I
Repulse Bay.
E-biu-bimy and Ton-Koe-l-tu (my e.
cellent interpreters and great helpers) joi
me in sending their regards to and tellin
) you our happy remembrance of you an
family