TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



OFFICIAL LETTERS 



Letter of Hou. R. W. Thompson, Secretary of tlie Navy, to the Vice-Presith-iit U. S. 

 Letter of Rear-Adiiiiriil Rodgers, Superiuteiulent of th<' Naval Oh.servatory, to tlie Secre- 

 tary of the Navy, forwarding the Narrative. 



PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. 



Pat'e. 



Hall's three expeditions — Piucliase of his manuscrixits l)y Congress — Resolution of the 

 Senate of Febrnary G, 1877 — The three expeditions compared — Connection of the 

 first and of the second with the Franklin Expedition — Correspondence with Lady 

 Franklin — Hall's "aiipeal" and lecture in 1860 — Tables of English and of Ameri- 

 can explorations for the Northwest Passage and for the relief of Franklin — Bene- 

 iicial results and estimated costs of these expeditious, public and private, stated in 

 a letter from Admiral Sir Leopold McCliutock, R. N. — The small i)ercentage of 

 deaths— Arctic authorities, 1S18-18G0 XI-L 



CHAPTER I. 



PREPARATORY WORK FOR THE EXPEDITION. 



September to December, 1862. 



Hall returns from his First Expedition — Telegraphs from St. John's, Newfoundland, ex- 

 pressing his purpose of a second voyage — Writes to Mr. Grinnell from Cincinnati, 

 desiring to present the Frobisher relics to the English people — His abstract of 

 Captain DUlon's discovery of the relics of La Perouse's Expedition — Studies Hak- 

 luyt, Purchas, and other authorities, and finds i)roof of the genuineness of his 

 discoveries — Reads a paper betbre the American Geographical Society, avowing his 

 luirpose of retnruiug North in the following year — Ackuowleilgment by the Royal 

 GeogTaphical Society of the receipt of the relics — Correspondence with Mr. .John 

 Barrow and with Captain Becher, R. N., resulting in llii' jucjunaf ion <>f a new 

 Arctic volume by Admiral Colliuson, R. N., for the Hakluyt Society — Hall's account 

 of his discoveries read before the Royal Geographical Society, London— 'I'heir gen- 

 nincn(>ss confirmed by Rae, Barrow, Markham, and Young — His abstract of the 

 three expeditions of Sir Martin Frobishei- — Addenda ^l'-' 



