4 The Franklin Boat-Creivs. 



was but stieiigtheiied by defeat. He gave proof of this before his 

 arrival in the United States by a telegram from St. John's, Newfound- 

 land, to his friends, Mr. Grinnell and Mr. Field, of New York, and Mr. 

 Greenwood and Mr. Bishop, of Cincinnati; a dispatch which began 

 with the words, "I am bound for the States to renew voyage'\ and which 

 reads throughout more like news from an excursionist than from one 

 who had been fighting his way through two Arctic winters. The forti- 

 tude into which those severe experiences had disciplined him, seems to 

 have shown itself steadily throughout the succeeding two years of 

 working and waiting which are now to be traced. 



Arriving in New London September 13, 1862, and placing under 

 the care of Capt. S. 0. Budington the Eskimos, Ebierbing {Joe) and Too- 

 koo-U-too {Hannah), who had joined their fortunes with his own, two 

 years before, Hall made a short visit to his family and to his earliest 

 Arctic friends in Cincinnati. While there, his letters evinced much 

 concern as to the opinions which the English people might form from 

 the reports by the press of his late voyage, a hasty impression having 

 been received from him that he had probably determined the fate of 

 tw(. l)oats' crews of Franklin's Expedition. He had been led into this 

 error by a i)arty of Sekoselar Innuits, but promptly corrected it in the 

 coliuinis (jf the New York press, and, afterward, more fully in a paper 

 read Ijefore the American Geographical Society and in the "Ai'ctic Re- 

 searches." Ills apprehensions were that before the first correction could 

 reach England the error would prejudice the English against the gen- 

 uineness of the discoveries he had been making in the region visited 

 by Sir Martin I'Vobislier tln-ee centuries l)efore. 



'i'lie appreliciisioii proved to have been groundless. It had, how- 



