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uninterruptedly pleasant; during the nights the thermometer had not 

 fallen below 40°, ranging during the day l)etween 48^ and 57°. His 

 Innuit friends, from whom lie had at one time separated himself, were 

 not really estranged from him, and Ebierbing and Too-koo-li-too 

 stood, as ever, steadfastly close. The relief came on tlie last days of 

 the month, when the first whale of the season was heard to blow ; and 

 better still, when refraction brought up from the ice-horizon the forms 

 of three ships under full sail. 



It was not a mirage of disappointment. A boat from the Pioneer, 

 Captain Morgan, of New London, in a few hours pushed off to hail 

 Hall from the shore; and it cannot be thought unmanly in him to 

 have recorded that he answered this salutation in tears. The sight 

 once more of a single friend, from the midst of his firmest friends, was 

 a full overmatch for all the roughness that had been forced upon his 

 nature by the ignorant and the degraded. To complete the pleasur- 

 able change, several other vessels soon came to Ships' Harbor Islands, 

 and the Black Eagle brought to him letters from Mr. Grinnell. From 

 Messrs. Harpers, his pubhshers, they brought a copy of the "Arctic 

 Researches," the preface of which volume had been dated " On Board 

 the Bark Monticello, June 30, 1864," and its last proof-corrections 

 sent from the ship when just leaving the harbor of St. John's, with the 

 indorsement, "All well and in good spirits, bound for the glorious 

 North." 



Mr. Grinnell sent the following letter from Lady Franklin to Mr 



Cornelius Grinnell : 



Upper Gove Lodge, October 18, 18Go. 

 My Dear Cornelius: I return your father's letter with many thanks. 

 Please thank him from [me] for his kind remembrance of the dcci) interest I feel 

 in all these researches of his brave and adventurous protege, and ask liini to con- 



