26 Sanguine Hopes. 



Journal of Commerce, December 3, 1862 Very probably a sanguine 

 temperament, excited sometimes by even a few strong words of sym- 

 l»athy from friends, prompted him to give unwarranted weight to such 

 words. xVs a picture of his feelings and of his way of recording his 

 experiences, a single extract is given from a letter written at this date : 



"My heart is too full to record the happiness of a meeting to-night. 

 Mr. Grinnell's whole family are so deeply devoted to my renewed 

 expedition, that Mr. G. and his wife offer their son, now in the United 

 States Xaw, to go with me to King William's Land, and, if need be, 

 he will contribute Si 0,000 to insure a research. 'There must be some- 

 thing more done,' he said, 'in search of Franklin's Expedition.'" "When 

 P^ngland hears of this," Hall wrote to Budington, "I would not 

 wonder if other expeditions should follow." This last expression 

 ^^ n.< made at a time when the English GoA^ernment were adhering 

 to their iinal refusal for all further search. The subject was not, 

 indeed, revived in any official form until the unsuccessful proposi- 

 tions of 1865 were discussed by the Royal Geographical Society, after 

 Hall liad ajjain sailed. Had he not been sincere in his statements that 

 his object was primarily the relief of Franklin's party, he would hardly 

 hav<.' laid this stress upon tlie hope that other expeditions Avould come 

 out from England for the same object. 



I lis ))rivate note-books and diaries are trustworthy witnesses of 

 the intiuences under wjiicli he brought his thoughts during this period 

 <»f .study and personal preparation. The following selections are taken 

 from one of these books, which contain chiefly extracts and careful ref- 

 eri-nccsto scientific autliorities : 



Oni ..i.:,i.>i ^l(,iy consists not in never Jalliiif?, but in rising every time we 

 '•'II- * TIm* (piestion is not the number of facts a man knows, but 



hou mncli of :i i;iri lie is liiuisell". # * # Great personal activity at 



