CHAPTER I. 



PEEPAEATORY WOEK. 



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



EXPRESSING HIS PURPOSE OF A SECOND VoYAGE — WRITES TO Mr. GRINNT^LL FROM CIN- 

 CINNATI, DESIRING TO PRESENT THE FrOBISHER ReLICS TO THE ENGLISH PEOPLE — HiS 

 ABSTRACT OF DiLLON'S DISCOVERY OF THE ReLICS OF La PeROUSE'S EXPEDITION — STUDIES 

 HaKLUYT, PuRCHAS, AND OTHER AUTHORITIES, AND FINDS PROOF OF THE GENUINENESS 

 OF HIS DISCOVERIES — READS A PAPER BEFORE THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 

 AVOWING HIS PURPOSE OF RETURNING NORTH THE FOLLOWING SPRING — ACKNOWLEDG- 

 MENT BY THE Royal Geographical Society of the receipt of the Relics — Cor- 

 respondence WITH Mr. John Barrow and with Captain Becher, R. N.. resulting 



IN THE preparation OF A NEW ARCTIC A'OLUME BY ADMIRAL COLLIXSOX, R. N., FOR 



THE Hakluyt Society — Hall's account of his discoveries read before the Royal 

 Geographical Society, London— Their genuineness contirmkd by Rae, Barrow, 

 Markiiam, and Young — His abstract of the three Expeditions of Sir Martin 

 Frobisher — Addenda. 



Hall's preparations for his Second Expedition, which this Narra- 



, tive is now to record, occupied a period of nearly two j^ears. The 



labors of those years, by demonstrating the successful results of his 



hrst voyage, and by the interest created through the publication of his 



"Arctic Researches", secured his second outfit. 



The purpose of the first voyage — to find the records of the Frank- 

 lin Expedition, and, if possible, some of the survivors — was entirely 

 defeated by the loss of his sole dependence — his boat. The purpose 



