304 VOYAGE TO THE POLAR SEA. April 



IN MEMOKY 



OP 



CHARLES FRANCIS HALL, 



LATE COMMANDER U.S. STEAMER ' POLARIS,' NORTH POLE EXPEDITION. 



DIED NOVEMBER 8TH, 1871, 



AGED 50 TEARS. 



* I am the resurrection and the life ; he that believeth in me, though 

 he were dead, yet shall he live.' 



' A small Hat piece of upright stone was at the 

 foot, arid the willow mentioned by Captain Tyson as 

 having been planted there was alive. 



' On the 2nd Archer started from Polaris Bay on his 

 return journey and arrived on board the " Discovery " 

 on the following day. Hans, who had spent the 

 winter on board the " Polaris " and was then always 

 able to hunt for seals in the open water-pools, was 

 much astonished to find firm ice for the whole distance 

 across the strait with no water anywhere. 



1 ISth. — Since the 14th there has been an occa- 

 sional snow-fall, estimated at two inches, but it has 

 collected deeper in protected places. Covering the 

 hard snow-drift, it hides the inequalities and renders 

 the footing even to the most experienced very un- 

 certain. The temperature of the earth which fell to 

 minus 12° during the winter has now risen gradually 

 to minus 10°* 5. 



4 At noon, when the atmosphere was unusually 

 clear, Lieutenant Beaumont and I thought that we 

 could distinguish cliffs forming the Greenland coast 

 about Cape Stanton, where previously I supposed that 



