The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20

= victia 81 the Pslaris Ex ,lpl4sd
z:s B. from the n. Y. Herald 81. \
Pony Ebcrbing, IN Esquimaux girl Of
Repulse Bay, aged nine years, recently
breathed her last in Groton, Conn. She
was the adopted daughter Of Eaquimaux
joe, the interpreter and companion for
many years ST the late Capt. CT. Hall,
the Arctic explorer. The his.
tory Of this child is i =
somewhat romantic one. When the wife
Of Esquimaux Joe, Hanna, lest her two
children she became broken.hearted, and
Captain Hall, to console her, succeeded
! in obtaining for her q bright infant girl
in exchange for sleigh at Repulse Bay,
in 1858. After Hall had been absent
from the United States for five
years he returned to this country,
in 1859, by the whaling bark
Ansell Gibbs Of New Bedford from Hud-
son Bay, bringing with him Joe. Hanna
and Pony. While Hall was making ar
engagements for the equipment of the Po-
laris expedition, Pony, with her adopted
parents resided at Groton, Conn.,, in. q
house belonging to Commander Sydney
0. Buddington, an old whaling captain.
When the Pofaris left American waters,
on the 10th Of June, 1871, on her mission
to discover tie North Pole, Captain Hall
took Pony and her parents with him.
They had stAteroom fitted up for
| them on that vessel, and were much
liked for their gentle manners and kind
and obliging behavior. Captain Bud
dington went out on the expedition as
sailing master, and after Captain Halls
death, became it's commander.
On the 18th of October, 1872, large
number Of the Polaris' crew were sud-
denly carried away on the ice while land
ing provisions from the ship, among them
Pony and her parents. For 1875 days the
unfortunate party remained floating to
the South in almost Cimmeriau darkness
and living in ice houses. For ten days
on one occasion tho party remained
without food, saving such sustenance as
could be derived by gnawing the skins
of some seals that had been killed some
time previously and eaten, as always, raw.
Entrails were greedily devoured, SO terri
bic was the hunger! Esquimaux Joe did
the the party good service in capturing
seals, bears, &c. Finally the party, by q
miraculous chance, were picked up by the
steamer Tigress off the coast of Labrador.
From the hardships endured on this &C.
casion Pony never recovered. Another
young traveller who lived was an E;eui-
maux baby, called ''Charles Polaris,''
aged about four months. Pony attend
ed the public school at Groton, and was:
considered very intelligent pupil, being
able to read and write with auency. One
Of her delights was playing cards with
her father. She always spoke in Esqui.
maux with her parents. Hanna (Pony's
foster mother) has been very sick of late,
at Groton, and it is possible that she and
Joe may go back to their native home,
Cumberland Inlet, and end their days in
their well-!oved Polar regions. Joe ap-
piled about two months ago to the British
government to be attached to the English
Polar expedition about starting, but has
not yet received any answer. Pony had
q fair complexion, and it was thought by
the members Of the Polaris expedition
that she was the daughter of some Amer.
lean whaler, otherwise it was conjectured
she would not have been bartered away.
She was the only Esquimaux child on re-
cord which ever lived over two or three
years in this country, other Esquimaux
children having died here within a year.
One of Hanna children died in this CITY
during the war, owing to the effects of
civilized food and the climate.