December, 1864.] HalVs Letter to Chapel. 109 



became fat and of good health. Crozier told this cousin that he was once at 

 IwillUc (Repulse Bay), at Winter Island and Igloolik, many years before, and 

 that at the two last-named places he saw many Innuits, and got acquainted with 

 them. This cousin had heard of Parry, Lyon, and Crozier, from his Innuit friends 

 at Repulse Bay, some years previous, and therefore when Crozier gave him his 

 name he recollected it. The cousin saw Crozier one year before he found him and 

 the three men, where the two shij)S were in the ice. It was there that he found 

 out that Crozier had been to Igloolik. * 



Crozier and the two men lived with the Neitchille Innuits some time. The 

 Innuits liked him (C.) very much, and treated him always very kindly. At length 

 Crozier, with his two men and one Innuit, who took along a Id-cik (!) [an India- 

 rubber boat, as Ebierbing thinks it was, for all along the ribs there was some- 

 thing that could be filled with air], left IsTeitchille to try to go to the Iwh-lu-na's 

 country, taking a south course. 



When Ou-ela (Albert) and his brothers, in 1854, saw this cousin that had 



been so good to Crozier and his men, at Pelly Bay which is not far from Xeitch- 



ille, the cousin had not heard whether Crozier and the two men and l^eitchille 



Innuit had ever come back or not. The Innuits never think they are dead — do 



not believe they are. Crozier offered to give his gun to the cousin for saving his 



life, but he would not accept it, for he was afraid it would kill him, it made such 



a great noise, and killed everything with nothing. Then Crozier gave him a 



long, curious knife (sword, as Ebierbing and Too-koo-li-too say it was), and many 



pretty things besides. [The dogs are aU in harness, and sledges loaded, and 



Innuits waiting for my letters. I promise to be ready in 30 minutes.] Crozier 



told the cousin of a fight with a band of Indians — not Innuits, but Indians. This 



must have occurred near the entrance of Great Fish or Back's River. More of 



this when I see you. * * * 



God bless you. 



C. F. HALL. 



This unusually ill-written letter is quoted almost literally in order 



to show Hall's excited state of mind on receiving some of the earliest 



of what he then believed to be news of Franklin's party. It will 



appear in the latter part of the Narrative that the "cousin," so much 



spoken of, was found by Hall to have been far less useful or humane 



to Crozier than is here noted. Hall's readiness to believe everything 



heard from the natives on his first acquaintance with them was largely 



