The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30


Sylvia. They understand our language, having
visited this country ut the time Captain Hall
was last here and are pleasant and Intelligent
looking persons. They are low-hrowed, small
eyed, thick-set, with straight hair and chubby,
ungraceful forms, characteristic OF their race,
and quite different from our idea of beauty.
They resemble somewhat the lower class OF
German and Irish emgrants, and are also little
like the Chinese in appearance. They ENJOY
civilized life very much, and are quite pleased
to make n second visit to the United States.
The climate is rather unsuited to their constitu-
tions and usual mode of life, but they soon get
accustomed to it.
His journal.
Captain Hall has n number of curioslties with
him, one of the most interesting of which is his
journal, large blank book, full of notes hastily
written with lead pencil, at ali times and places,
and often under the most unfavorable circum-
stances. Its pages contain the record OF many
weary days of hardship and suffering, and ac-
counts of moving incidents by flood and field,
such as are rarely to be met with. In order to
prevent the writings from being blurred, the
pages have been dipped in preparation of glue
made from fishes, so that it retains sticky feel
ing.
The captain gave q vivid description of his ex-
perience within the Arctic circle, and his life
among the Esquimaux. The largest body OF the
latter he ever saw collected together was only 1876
and was rather unusual circumstance The
solitary nature of the life led by the explorers
may therefore be imagined. All alone in the
frozen waste, with hardly a living thing to be
met with living like moles, in underground
houses, with dogs and Esquimaux, so huddled
together that the human could scarcely be dis
tinguished from the brute; shut out from all in
tercourse with the outer world, excepting the
scraps of news, brought at long intervals, by
passing whale ships; such an existence only
varied by occasional expeditions into the inte
rior on sledges drawn by dogs can hardly be
called endurabe, let alone pleasant. Yet Cap
tain Hall did not complain of the life.
Skeletons of iFranElin's Crews.
In a letter to Henry Grinnell, published in this
mornings Tribune, Mr.. Hall says-
The result of my sledge journey to King Will
liam's Land may be summed up thus:-None of
Sir John Franlllins companions ever reached or
died on Montreal Island. 1t was late in july
| 1S4S, that Crozer and his party, of about forty
or forty-fve, passed down the west coast of
| King Williams Land in the vicinity of Cape
| Herschell. The party was dragging two sledges
| on the sea-ice, which was nearly in its last
| stage of dissolution-one a large sledge laden
| with an awning-covered boat, and the other, q
| small one, laden with provisions and camp ma
terial. just before Crozier and party arrived at
| Cape Herschell, they were met by four families
of natives, and both parties went into camp
| near each other. Two EsquimauX men, who
| were of the native party, gave me much sad but
| deeply interesting information Some of it
| stirred my heart with sadness, intermingled
| with rage for it was confession that they with
| their companions did secretly and hastily aban-
don Crozier and his party to suffer and die for
need of fresh provisions, when, in truth, it was
in the power of the natives to save every man
alive. The next trace of Crozier and his party
is to be found in the skeleton which McClintock
discovered little below, to the southwark and
eastward of Cape Herschell; this was never
found by the natives The next trace is a camp
ing-place on the seashore of King Williams Land,
about three miles eastward of Pfeffer river where
two men died and received Christian burial. At
this place fish bones were found by the natives,
CHI how hat and
had caught while there aspecies of fish excellent
| for food, with which the sea there abounds.
The next trace of this party occurs some five or
| six miles eastward, on long, low point of King
| Williams Land, where one man died and was
buried. Then about s. Sc, two and half
| miles further the next trace occurs, on Todd
| Islet, where the remains of five men lie The
| next certain trace of this party is on the west
| side OF the inlet west of Point Richardson, on
| some low land that is an island or part of the
main land as the tide may be. Here the awning
covered boat and the remains of 30 or 80 of
Crozier's party were found by the native
| Poo-yet-ta of whom Sir John Ross has given q
description in the account OF his voyage in the
| Victory, 1S29-34
In the spring of 1S49 a large tent was found
| by some of the natives whom l saw, the floor OF
| which was completely covered with the remains
of white men. Close by were two graves. This
tent was little way inland from the head of
| Terror Bay.
In the spring of 1861, when the snow was
Quoted by native well known throughout the
northern regions, found two boats with many
| skeletons in and around them. One of these
boats had been previously found by McClintock;
the other was found lying from one-quarter to
| one-half mile distant, and must have been com
| pletely entombed in snow at the time McClin-
| tocks parties were there, or they would most
| assuredy have seen it. In and about this boat,
besides the many skeletons alluded TO-, were
| found many relics, most OF them similar in
character to those McClintock has enumerated
as having been found in the boat he discovered
The native who conducted this native party
in its search over King Williams Land is the
same individual who gave DR.. Rae the first in
formation about white men having died to the
westward of where he CDR. Rae) then was
(Pely Bay), in the spring of 1854. His name is
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., and he is native OF
Neitchille n very great traveller, and very in
telligent. He is, in fact walking history o
| the fate of Sir John Franklins expedition. This
native met when within one days sledge
journey of King Williams Land-off Point
Dryden-and after stopping a few days among
| his people, he accompanied me to the places
visited on and about King Williams Land.
The Northwest Passage.
The same year that the Erebus and Terror
were abandoned one of them consummated the
| great Northwest passage, having five meL
aboard. The evidence of the exact number il
| circumstantial. Everything about this North
west passage ship of Sir John Franklin's EXpe
| dition was in complete order; four boats were
| hanging high up at the ships Sides and one was
on the quarter deck; the vessel was in its winter
housing of sail or tent cloth. This vessel wal
found by the Ook-joo-ilk natives near O'Reilly
Island. lat 6S degrees 80 minutes N. long. 81
degrees minutes w. early In the springof lS49
IL being frozen in, in the midst OF a smooth anC
| unbroken foe of ice of only one winters forma
| tion. From certain evidence have gained botl
| ot Ig-loo-lik and King Williams Land ther
| must have been dog OF the greyhound specie