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being- 1,637 pounds, or an average per day of about 22 pounds for 

 the party. Up to the first week in November, his fragmentary notes 

 show that fifty-one deer had been killed. He trained his men to hard- 

 ships and busied himself with new plans. He had with him packages 

 of the New York papers, and particularly the Journal of Commerce, 

 in which his own letters to the United States had been more than once 

 published. His friend Mr. Grinnell, who had sent out these with his 

 renewed supplies, had expected him home in September. The letters 

 of friendship from Mr Grinnell and from his daughter Sylvia had 

 informed him that a special ship would have been sent for him, had it 

 not been known that at least two whalers were near him in the bay. 

 But these letters also advised him that, from what he had already 

 written home, much anxiety was felt among his friends not only in 

 the United States but in England to hear more of Franklin's men. 

 Hall determined to endure another Arctic winter, and then, if possi- 

 ble, strike once more for King William's Land. 



