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disease. A large number of visitors came around him, the village 

 since his arrival having swelled its population to the number of one 

 hundred. After questioning many of the people, at first separately 

 and then at a time when quite a party were gathered in his igloo, he 

 was further strengthened in his belief of what he had heard about the 

 white men seen on the southern shores of the Strait. He seems to 

 have really expected that he would soon find some of Franklin's men 

 still alive. 



The details of his conversations were written out with great care 

 in a full journal, which was irrecoverably lost in some unaccountable 

 way just before his setting out on the Polaris Expedition of 1871. 

 From a partial copy of this journal, made at his request by his friend 

 Mr. J. J. Copp, of Groton, Conn., the notes have been taken which are 

 to be found in Paper "B" of Appendix IV. This copy, made by Mr. 

 Copp in books "A" and *' B" especially for the use of Lady Franklin, 

 was sent over to that estimable lady just before Hall left the United 

 States on his last ill-fated voyage. Indorsed by him "to be retained 

 by her in trust for a time," it has been courteously returned by her 

 niece. Miss Sophia Cracroft, for use in the preparation of this 

 Narrative. 



Some of the striking points in these conversations, which increased 

 Hall's enthusiasm, and in his judgment justified him in prosecuting 

 this journey, will be found in Appendix named The story may 

 be summed up in brief as follows : Although he could not meet with 

 Kia, for he had been killed by a walrus, he learned from Koo-loo-a, a 

 native whom he found to be trustworthy, that when he had been hunt- 

 ing all around the country between Grarry Bay and the northwest 

 cape of Melville Peninsula, he had seen an In-nook-shoo (a monument) 



