8 Hall before the American Geographical Society. 



of Sir Martin were among the favorite objects of Elizabeth. She had 

 shown her favor by her throwing around Sir Martin's neck a chain of 

 gold, and by her letters of praise written to him. 



Conferring, however, with Mr. Grinnell after returning from 

 Cincinnati, he decided to send the relics out to England, to the care of 

 Mr. Cornelius Grinnell, in place of exhausting his own means and de- 

 laying his plans by a visit to London. In the mean time, aj)plying 

 himself closely at the rooms of the American Geographical Society 

 and of the Astor Library to the old authorities Hakluyt, Purchas, and 

 others, he had the satisfaction of further confirming his discoveries. 

 After a study of some weeks previously to meeting the Geographical 

 Society, he wrote to Budington: 



I find much that is valuable in proving that the rehcs are, beyond all ques- 

 tion, Frobisher's. It will perhaps startle you to hear that one of his vessels went 

 into the bay I call Ward's bay, through Beare Sound. It may be the English 

 will dispute my discoveries, but I covet the opportunity to show the facts. 



Opportunity for this was early afforded. At the meeting of the 

 American Geographical Society, held, as at that time was usual, in the 

 hall of the Historical Society, of New York, he was introduced by Mr. 

 Grinnell and made a report which will be found noted in "the Pro- 

 ceedings", under the title of "An abstract of a Paper on some Arctic 

 Discoveries." 



In this paper, after referring to his statements before the society 

 made two years previously. Hall re-stated in full that the original pur- 

 pose of his late voyage was to visit King William's Land and Boothia, 

 and there spend two years, if needed, in gathering materials for con- 

 cluding in a more satisfactory way the history of Franklin's Expedi- 

 tion ; to recover the logs of the ships Erebus and Terror, with all other 

 manuscripts belonging to that expedition; and, especially, to rescue 



