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shore by some of tlie sailors and not, entirely restored. Making up 

 his remaining property into eighteen bundles, tied with rope-lashings 

 and a three-stranded braid woven by Mam-marl-^ he placed on board 

 the Ansell Gibbs a weight of about 1,500 pounds, to be sold on the 

 return of the ship to the United States. 



But the whalers were not to return that season. The meager 

 results of their cruises were now forcing the four ships, the 131ack 

 Eagle, Ansell Gibbs, Concordia, and Glacier, to remain out another 

 year ; and their captains were soon to choose between their winter- 

 ing in this bay or else at Marble or at Depot Island. The choice 

 between these was of the utmost moment to Hall. If the decision should 

 be to winter at the places last named, none of the crews could be 

 spared to him until the ships should have passed through another 

 year. To go down with them, as invited, might possibly give him 

 the opportunity of learning something of Crozier from the natives of 

 Chesterfield Inlet, for there were rumors of their having seen him. 

 And yet to remain where he was, if the ships left him, was of little 

 promise, since his next journey was dependent entirely on his getting 

 the men he needed, and he was unable to effect the arrangement by 

 which he proposed to substitute for such as might be left with him an 

 equal number of Eskimos; the natives themselves, with but one excep- 

 tion, were unwilling to go. But if the vessels should winter in the 

 bay, he would have the five men who might volunteer for the spring 

 months at the wages of $50 per month, and with these he hoped to 

 make his journey to King WilHam Land, return before the next whal- 

 ing season was over, and be in the United States in the fall of 18G7. 

 He waited for the decision of the captains with no little anxiety. 



Keturning to Beacon Hill and erecting his tupik on the same spot 



