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came into the harbor, having on board his brother, Capt Christopher 

 Chapel, and thirty others, who had been picked up on the ice of Hud- 

 son's Strait, near North Bluff, where their ship, the Pioneer, was 

 crushed. From the Nimrod, Hall obtained a heavy cotton sail and 

 500 pounds of sea-bread, in payment for which he gave an order on 

 his steadfast friend in New York, Mr. Grinnell ; for a number of use- 

 ful small articles he gave in return deer skins and meat. From an 

 English vessel, which came in, August 2, he procured a number of 

 hatchets, knives, saws, powder-horns, daggers, and smaller articles, for 

 his future trading, paying for these with 248 pounds of his bone, 

 valued at $1 per pound. He received a present of a Nautical Almanac 

 for the year 1868. 



From the whalers already named and from others coming in, he 

 completed his purchases of provisions and stores for the coming year 

 and for a new journey; among his latest supplies were those from the 

 schooner Era, commanded by Capt. G. E. Tyson, afterward one of the 

 officers of the United States steamer Polaris. His indebtedness on 

 these last accounts amounted to $455.06, the value, ns he estimated it, 

 of the remainder of his whalebone on the Ansell Gibbs. It must be 

 said in justice to him that his purchases and his orders for payment 

 were made in good faith, proof of which is found in a letter from Mr. 

 Grinnell, dating after the return of the whaler, which letter acknowl- 

 edges the receipt of monies on Hall's account from Captain Kilmer, 

 of this ship. Each of the captains, while they remained in Repulse 

 Bay, made him valuable presents, including some useful books. 



On the 1 3th of August, he went over to Pi-iik-tou-yer, to remain 

 there for the purpose of catching whales. He found the natives living 

 in some twenty tupiks; but a few days after, most of the men moved 



