570 HALL'S FIRST EXPEDITION. 



" On Tuesday morning, Mr. C. F. Hall sailed from the 

 port of New London (Conn.), in the whale-ship George 

 Henry, Capt. S. O. Buddington. The design of Mr. Hall's 

 expedition is twofold: First, to survey the unexplored re- 

 gion lying between Cape Willoughby and the eastern en- 

 trance to Fury and Hecla Straits; and, secondly, to en- 

 deavor to gather additional particulars respecting the fate 

 of Sir John Franklin's expedition. Mr. Hall is of the 

 opinion that there may be still living some of that com- 

 pany, who are held in bondage or are living among the 

 northern and western tribes of Esquimaux, having become 

 in a measure identified with their manners and customs, 

 and fearing the peril and danger attendant upon a journey 

 of several hundred miles over untrodden ground, have set- 

 tled down with the people of their necessitous choice. To 

 these he will offer the means to return to their country 

 and friends, and gather from them the full particulars of 

 the fate of their companions. During his journeyings he 

 will make observations on the dip, variation and intensity 

 of the magnetic needle. 



" While on a visit to New London, in February last, 

 with a vieAV of purchasing the Amaret (the Rescue of 

 the Grinnell expedition), he, in company with Captain 

 Buddington, planned a boat expedition, relinquishing the 

 idea of proceeding to the Arctic seas with a large vessel. 

 Messrs. Williams & Haven, a firm who have a large fleet 

 of vessels engaged in the Arctic whale-fishery, offered him 

 a passage free of charge. This offer was gratefully accepted. 

 Mr. Hall immediately left for the West, where he resided, 

 leaving Captain Buddington to superintend the building 

 of the boat. Mr. G. W. Rodgers, who built the boats for 

 the expeditions of De Haven, Kane and Hartstein, took 

 the contract and built a boat in many respects resem* 

 bling those in use by whalemen. 



" At the West, Mr. Hall went zealously to work gath- 

 ering material for his proposed expedition provisions, 



