244 SMITH SOUND 



Sound which he named after Professor John Tyndall, 

 pulling first along its front in a boat and then mounting 

 its surface. As he rowed along within a few fathoms 

 of this two miles of ice, he found the face " worn and 

 wasted away until it seemed like the front of some vast 

 incongruous temple, here a groined roof of some 

 huge cathedral, and there a pointed window or a 

 Norman doorway deeply moulded ; while on all sides 

 were pillars round and fluted and pendants dripping 

 crystal drops of the purest water, and all bathed in a 

 soft blue atmosphere. Above these wondrous archways 

 and galleries there was still preserved the same Gothic 

 character ; tall spires and pinnacles rose along the 

 entire front and multiplied behind them, and new forms 

 met the eye continually. Strange, there was nothing 

 cold or forbidding anywhere. The ice seemed to take 

 the warmth which suffused the air, and I longed to pull 

 my boat far within the opening and paddle beneath the 

 Gothic archways." 



Charles Francis Hall, of Cincinnati, was a man of a 

 very different stamp. He was a genius and a genuine 

 worker, an accurate observer and painstaking explorer 

 who believed above all things in thoroughness, 

 llealising that the best way to study the Polar regions 

 was to understand the Eskimos, who know most about 

 them, and utilise their local knowledge, he settled 

 amongst them, lived with them, adopted their customs, 

 and became as one of them in their huts and tents, 

 taking part in their sports and hardships. Two friends 

 he made amongst them, Ebierbing and his wife Took- 

 oolito, better known as Joe and Hannah, who accom- 

 panied him till he died. 



