If) 6 Food and Fuel Renewed. [March, ises. 



■would l)e veiled IVoiii us. Our huts are sad, our voices almost hu.slied! But 

 away, away, thou lieiid of Despair ! This is no home for you. We are the children 

 iif Hope. Prayer, aud Work. God is our father, ami better times will come. 



Hall had been busily writing letters to the Journal of Commerce, 

 and the New York Herald, and to friends at home; but he had to di-op 

 the pen for the rifle, to get food. 



On the 16th he hopefully led out his company to the walrus- 

 grounds, with dogs and sledge, across the rugged ice of the Welcome. 

 Too-koo-li-too, as usual, had been up, tlie first of the part}^, giving 

 notice there was little wind, and that, from the northeast: and Hall, 

 feeling, he says he knew not why, that before night they would 

 have success in the hunt, took out with him all hands, including Ar- 

 too-a, who, through his own necessities, had returned to the village. 

 They secured one great seal and a large walrus, and made a deposit of 

 them until the following day. 



At G.45 a. m. of the 17th, in the midst of a furious snow-storm, 

 tlie\' started to retrace the path of this hunt over a seemingly end- 

 less extent of hummocks, and by 3.30 p m. were back safe in Hall's 

 if/Ioo. Their sled was demolished, their shins badly scarred, and their 

 temper "nearly about broken into cursing an icy world in general"; 

 b)it, having now a good supply of food and fuel. Hall wrote ^^ Heaven 

 he praised!^' He was able, chiefly through Ebierbing's industry and 

 skill, not only to help some of those who had lately left him and were 

 jK.w ill want, hut to send to Captain Chapel a large piece of the ook- 

 ffooL, to he (li\i(l(Ml uinong the five captains. The temperature was 

 beginning to be less severe, the thermometer rising at midday to 

 10°. Some snow was taken off from the embankments outside of the 

 igloos. ]'(.«m1, light, and warmth were again within. 



