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amounting-, at that date, it is believed, to nearly $500,000. It was no 

 time for either of the commercial houses to take risks. 



Ten days later. Hall drew up in detail six new plans, differing- in 

 their estimates and in the question whether the vessel of the expedi- 

 tion should be employed in whaling or in exploration only. On the 

 first of these, which contemplated exclusively the search for Franklin's 

 party and the object of geographical discovery, he indorsed, " If 

 there were a possibility of raising the amount of $20,000 involved in 

 this plan, it should be accepted and carried out "; on the second, which 

 he called "The Combination Research and Whaling Expedition", he 

 indorsed, " Taking into consideration all the circumstances of the 

 times, I believe this the most feasible^'' He strongly expressed him- 

 self, however, as unwilling!}^ converted to the idea of the second plan, 

 considering it distasteful to unite the object of whaling with the search 

 for Sir John Franklin's party. 



Submitting the first plan to Mr. Grinnell as one to be exclusively 

 in his name and at his cost, Hall received the unavoidable reply that 

 he did not feel that his means would justify his investing the amount 

 indicated. 



The four last propositions dispensed with the idea of providing a 

 special vessel, and differed within themselves chiefly in regard to the 

 numbers of the party who might go out in a whaler. Among many 

 offers from those who proposed to share his voyage, was one from Mr 

 Washington Peale, an artist of New York, whom Hall would gladly 

 have had to accompany him. The sixth memorandum, which he 

 called his "Last Alternative", provided for his going out alone in a 

 whaler and being landed wherever the natives should be met with, to 



