o46 HalTs Position Higher than liae's Highest. [April, ises. 



The rough notes of the two days of this visit are worth a Hteral 

 transcribing, and are here given, omitting only Hall's astronomical 

 observations, and some sketches of less importance than those shown 

 by the cuts. The spot visited had not been reached by any previous 

 Arctic explorer. Parry's officers were not on this western side of the 

 peninsula, and Dr. Rae's highest point was 69° 5' 35" N. (Rae's Narra- 

 tive, p. 128). And it may be justly remarked here that it is to be 

 regretted that Hall's visit should have been recently discredited, and 

 this before his full statements could be published. The latitude of his 

 encampment here was 69° 47' 5" N., long. 85° 15' W. 



Literal Copy of HalVs Notes. 



Apeil 24. — Koo-loo-a requested to-day that I would take a look with my 

 spy-glass in a certain direction, after we had tramped four hours over hill, lake, 

 ravine, and through deep snows. I looked, and sighted a monument above the 

 snow. Koo-loo-a and Frank took a look through the spy- glass, the former 

 declaring that the monument he saw was at the head of a bay not then in sight. 

 Dr. Eae could not possibly have made this monument and cache, for they both 

 belong together ; the latter covered with a deep drift every winter, and when 

 Eae was at Cape Crozier in May, 1847, the bank of snow must have been as dee]) 

 and hard as the one now there. Besides, Dr. Eae's track-chart does not show 

 that he visited the southeast angle of Parry Bay. To-morrow morning, I remove 

 with my party to the monument. 



Koo-loo-a told Hannah that when he first saw this monument thirteen years 

 before, it was then fresh, and now looks old. When he found it and the cache- 

 stones under the bank, he told all the Innuits of his strange discovery. No In- 

 nuit could have made it. A hole was dug out of the rocks and something de- 

 j)Osited in it. Afterward, the stones covering the cache were thrown all in a pile 

 on one side, and the dej^osit, whatever it was, taken out. 



Apeil 25.-- This morning we leave our seventh igloo here and move down 

 to tljc iiioimnient, to make all investigations possible relating to it, and try our 

 best to liud I he ca<;lj('-.stones buried in a huge snow-bank tluit lies over tlie steep 

 bank of ground running alongside of the i)laiu on the margin of which is the 

 ijKMiuiiieut. 



