The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . Arrival at Home.—Results of HallsExpedition.—Innuit Traditions.—Discovery of Frobisher Relics.—?Iall undertakes a second Expedi-tion.—His Statement of its Object and Prospects.—Last Tidings of Hall. AMONG the most remarkable expeditions ever undertaken in the Polar worldis that of Charles Francis Hall, performed during the years 1860,1861, and1862. Its primary object was to discover the survivors of Sir John Franklinsparty; for at this time there was good Ieason to believe that ou
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . Arrival at Home.—Results of HallsExpedition.—Innuit Traditions.—Discovery of Frobisher Relics.—?Iall undertakes a second Expedi-tion.—His Statement of its Object and Prospects.—Last Tidings of Hall. AMONG the most remarkable expeditions ever undertaken in the Polar worldis that of Charles Francis Hall, performed during the years 1860,1861, and1862. Its primary object was to discover the survivors of Sir John Franklinsparty; for at this time there was good Ieason to believe that out of the 105 whowere known to be living on the 25th of April, 1848, some were still the main purpose of the undertaking nothing was indeed came upon no traces of Franklin and his men; but he acquired a more ac-cui-ate knowledge of the Esquimaux— or rather as they call themselves, and aswe shall call them, the Innuits—a word meaning simply men or people—and their mode of life than was ever before, or is likely to be hereafter, gained 28 434 THE POLAR UALL AND COMPANIONS, IN INNUIT COSTUME. by any other wliite man capable of telling what he saw, and a part of which h|was, Tlie remarkable book in which Mr. Hall describes his expedition* seemnot to have come under the notice of Dr. Ilartweg. It is proposed in this chajter to supplement the account of the Innuits from this work of Mr. Ilall. * Arctic Researches, and Life amnvg the. Esquimaux, By Chakles Francis Hall. New York, 186< j CHARLES FRANCIS HALL AND THE INNUITS. 435 Up to middle life Hall had resided in the inland city of Cincinnati. He hadeao-erly read every thing that he could find on record of the searches made foiFranklin. Large ships and small ships had been sent out. Brave hearts andBtout hands had been enhsted in the search, but with no tangible result beyondascertaining the spot where the surviving 105 were when they abandoned theirships and took to th
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