60 An Unfortunate Mistake. [September, is64. 



altitude to be 40 miles, south of the point which Captain Chapel sup- 

 posed he had reached. Mate Newman, with a boat's crew from the 

 Tender, assisted in conveying the stores on shore. Hall gives the 

 position of this first landing place as lat. 64° 35' N., long. 87° 33' W., 

 '' Encampment No. 1." 



This mistake of the land was a grievous disappointment. The 

 remaining distance was clearly withiu the instructions received from 

 the captain of the Monticello, and it could have been readily and safely 

 made. It was more than a disappointment to Hall, for it proved to be the 

 loss of a whole year to the expedition. Had the landing been secured 

 at the point proj^osed on AYager River, he might have gone directly to 

 Repulse Bay, securing there his winter quarters, and preparing, as he 

 expected, for his spring journey. It will be seen that he was com- 

 pelled to pass his first winter near this first landing, and that it required 

 the larger part of the oj^ening season to push on his boat and stores to 

 Repulse Ba,y. Whatever, however, may have been the error, and how- 

 ever sore the disappointment, no complaints are found in his journal. 



The crews using both sail and oars found a fair harbor a little 

 before meridian, but landed with difficulty because of the falling 

 tide. Hall and Rudolph were in the water waist deep to haul the 

 Sylvia ashore. 



A single white man in a desolate region, and at the beginning of 

 an Arctic winter, but a man of a brave heart and of Arctic experience ! 



The wliole of the first day after landing he occupied in making 

 a caclie and depositing stores, in order to reduce the weight of 

 tlic S) l\ia\s cargo. Such articles as were not needed for immediate 

 use were carefully packed in three deposits under a i)onderous pile of 



