The New York herald., 1875-12-29

70 reach King williams Land. As Is well known,
these men mutnied and Hall shot one OF them.
"You heal hear about that too :" he asked when
mentioned It TO him.
nSr
want TO take him boat-capn Han want boat
| heself-speak him not take boat-men not mind-all
| him.
"what did the others do then9'
KUN back house; get guns; shoot Captain Hall No
gun there with chuckle) take him, hide him; no
'Then what did they do 20
Everybody shake hands -
"What did they do that for Y'
, Very good irends gnh Do what Captain Hall speak
take him boat no more all right"
what did they say to your
everybody all right; shake him hand
"Did tho man who was shot die quick %
"Die after while; pretty soon; same day
''Did he say anything after he was shotYn
II never heal (hearl him say nothing; pretty bad ;
plenty hurt himi not can speak think he not know
much everybody very sorry; die after while; bury
him"
asked him once If they had seen any Esquimaux on
King Williams Land He said they had, and that they
were at first disposed TO be hostile
''Men all como out meet us. No women-no chill
dren. Bad sign. March like soldier, one after other
ten, nfteen-all carry spear some knife tied stick.
Don know where he learn him. Never see Esqnimaux
march that way"
''What did they sayf"
''Say want 10 1ghtp
''What did you say then?"
'We speak hm-not want to nght-not come fight
come lind white man lost-Frankln.u -
"What did they do then ~
"Throw down spear-hold up hands-say all right
We not hght-friend2 Then women, children all come
ont see Us. Speak 30 in house-gve US plenty seal
meat.n
probably do with Franklins papers If they found any,
he said:-
Think. Give him children-play with him. After
while tear him up-burn him."
The most interesting talks had with him were how
ever, about the winter on the Ice with Tysons party
He speaks very kindly of everybody in this party but
his feelings seem to be rather compound of pity
forgiveness than of friendships and the truth that Joe
had good deal 70 pity as well as to forgive In their bc
have just been reading over again the old accounts
Of that wonderful winter on the as given in tho
HERALD, by Captain Tyson aud his comrades and
must say that could scarcely repress my indignation
when saw that the name of Joe is not even men,
toned
They tell how, when they found there was no hope
of reaching land, they built snow houses which they
and birds, with which they eked out their
store Of ships provisions; how, when they
a great Ugup seal; how another time when they had
not tasted anything for thirtysx hours, they Killed
bear which sent in their way, and which supplied
them food for few days more, and melt with pity
and admiration at the recital of such steady undauned
courage and fortitude.
who built them their snow houses; that it
was Joe who hunted for them through the
killed 80 many seals-that, In fact nobody else
but Joe and Hans killed single seal; that II he
VINO Killed the big ugup when they were on the point
of starvation; that IT was Joe who killed the bear,
without which they must have all died that 1t was in
fact Joe, and Joe alone who saved the lives OF the
whole party. And yet there Is not word OF Joe in
all these first accounts He Is incidentally referred 10
as one of the "natives," and left to
infer that they, with their children, were dread
fully in the way. 1t Is true that a long
time afterward, when the journals of of these
men were pubshed-ournals written at the time
when the danger still before them and about them
when Joe feeding them from day to day like chill
dren, when no gave them every moment o fresh dis
nf ali md har1
and simple devotion to duty-whcn the impulse was
still warm them they acknowledge their debt
to Joe in words that overflow with gratitude and
leave an impress OF sincerity and truth that is
not to be mistaken Heron says in his Journal "Joe
is very much TO be praised also his wife Hannah We
may thank them aud God for our lives also for the
good health we in. We could never have got
through this far without them II We get out OF
this difficulty they can never be too much paid.
Tyson also renders Joe tardy kind of justice pub
fishing his Journal but here the passages referring
70 the Esquimalx are writton in carping tone
hunters for the expedition, aud paid for that
sns than s a sy s.
over, when they were safe aboard good strong
ship and there need Of a seal hunter they
their wonderful escape which they gave the world
they do not go much as mention his name These
noble white evidently did not think II worth whilo
to speak of poor a creature an Esquimau-a
kind of niggcr--who had saved their lives.
1t must not be supposed however, that Joe himself
that point, but he sad:-"They all vely good men
like me good deal; meet him say Joe, how you do;
you save life take drink give cigar
sometimes, too" And he seems to think that they
very generous
Did they ever try to 90 out and kill seals 9n asked
''Kill him sea' No Never go ont house; try keep
warm; friend go out; pretty cold; very weak; not
know how kill him sea-(wth great deal OF con-
tempt tl-"nothng but starve."
Il seems that they not only never went out TO look
for seal for themselves but that when Joe would bring
in they would often take It and divide it up their
wny, giving him just as much as they thought he
ought to have Hans used to object to this and
than once threatened to run away and leave them to
shift for themselves; but joe whom he obeyed in
everything, made him stay Hans, besides, had little
success hunter, and fully nne-tenths Of the seals
brought in were killed by joe
when Joe killed the big Ugiuk seal they took 1t into
their heads that Joe trying to do them out OF the
liver because he told them II not at to cat Tho
liver of the Uguk seal, like that VI the beaver is
poisonous while Of other seals it is great decacy
They therefore determined TO eat the liver
Joes account of II was very amusing
"After while all sick-skin all come OFF face
(there was a negro in Tyson's partly aiier while
little skin came off hcre-litte there-then he
spottssd.oy,m by skin all come on-then
black eyes twinkled his face expanded and his sides
shook with halfsuppressed laughter the picture Of
the negro turning into q white by eating Ugjuk
liver recurred to him Tyson saws in his book that
Joe and Hans afraid OF being Killed and eaten by
the men, aud that ho himself suspected some OF them
When asked Joe about this no only laughed
"K me No danger kill me-not git any more seal
build house kill him plenty seal for me and Hannah
and little Ponney-poor little Ponney-dcad now"
and he looked very sad Little Penney died some time
after their return TO America.
captain Tyson seemed TO think they going TO
eat you and Hans and the women and children"
said.
Maybe Cap'n Tyson thinks so; not think so;
not afraid o. that; could mt do IT..
'But Joen / said, "why didn't you take Hannah
and little Penney and 60 away OF the ice some
where, build n house and catch seals Tor yourself
Three four seals would have been enough for you all
winter You must have killed sixty or seventy"
GAN die"
''Who all dicp"
''Cap'n Tyson and everybody"
''But they sometimes wouldn't give you some of the
seal YOU had killed2n
''No, that not SO; always give me lttle sometimes
not much; Hans he not like thatn
"But why didn't you run away, Joo2n
Captain Hall not like that Say Joe, you come
with me; you kill him plenty seal for expedition;
come to hunt him seal, reindeer bear"
"But Captain Hall was doadu
eyes, dead now Cap'n Hall good man-good man.
If Cap'n Hall alive he not away. not run away