310 HalVs Letter Ahout the Men. [Aprii, iser. 



iT(iuest. lor lt\ it I jiulj;e, if my heart is not aniis.s, that you did not really intend 

 to wound my feeliniis. and do me and the cause I represent the injustice you did 

 on board the Glacier last Friday evening'. Allo^y me to state that I am not 

 aware of e\ er ha\ ing entertained for a moment any thought to injure your feel- 

 ings in any way. The very nature of the mission to which I have devoted the 

 last seven years of my life has led me to do all in my power to get to King Will- 

 iam's Land and its neighhoring lands as soon as possible, and, therefore, I have 

 never sw erved fiom this prineii)le, w hich has been to do all in my power to live 

 on good terms with every man, that I might have his co-operation in accomi)lish- 

 ing the end 1 have in view, to wit. the rescue of some survivor or sur\ivors of Sir 

 .lohn Franklin's Fxpedition, whom I have believed might still be living, and that 

 I might recover some of the journals of that expedition, and otherwise gain most 

 imitortant information relating to the fate of all the missing ones. 



Obstacle after obstacle has been before me, but perseverance has overcome 

 them all except the last. I have done all, as now seemeth to me, that I could do 

 to remove it. How sorrowfully disappointed ^ill the noble-hearted Mr. Grinuell 

 be, and the thousands of good hearts of our countrymen, and of other portions of 

 the civilized world, when they find that I have been obliged to turnback just 

 when I should, and might well, push on, and quickly finish up the work before 

 me I Believe me, captain, when I tell you that I feel in my own heart that with 

 the renewal of yoiu- warm ci)-operation at once, or in a very few days, I and the 

 l»ivviously-organized sledge party can this spring perform my purposed sledge 

 journey in season to be back here the latter i)art of June ; and that by your thus 

 <l«ting tlieie will be no occasion for organizing another party of like kind here- 

 after. If .\<m knew liow deeply I regret the wdthdraw-al of your helping hand, 

 ju.st at tlje moment when, as I feel, it is most needed, I am sure you would ex- 

 tend it again without a moment's delay. I ])ray you consider this whole matter, 

 not as mine alone, but as Mr. Grinnell's, and the thousands who have their eyes 

 npoii me. and f.el ;i d..), im.-icst in all that pertains to Sir John Franklin's lost 

 I'XjH'ilition. 



Kxi-u-. ,,„•, . .j.i.iiM; ji i am not there to tea, for really I feel so overwhelmed 

 in p-ief at my «lisapiiointment in not making the sledge journey for which I have 

 m long b<-. II |,ie|,aiiii;,r, n,;,! j ;,,„ j^m^, j (.qhU not contribute one jot to anyone's 

 Hoeial enjoynii nt. 



^lost lespect fully, 



C. F. HALL. 



