July, I86S.] Dcaih of Colemau. 361 



The unhappy man, Patrick Coleman, lingered from the 31st of 

 July until the 14tli of the following" month, during the whole of which 

 time every effort Avas made by Hall to save his life by the use of all 

 remedies at his command and by the most careful nursing, in which 

 his other men took their full share. Antoine made a full confession of 

 his having done wrong. The Innuits told Hall they had expected 

 that the four mutinous men, whom he had encountered at the time of 

 shooting one of them, would attack and endeavor to kill him, and that 

 it had been their purpose to run to his rescue. 



He now participated in the anxious uncertainties felt by his men 

 as to whether any whaling-vessel would visit the bay this year; and, 

 if not, by what possible means he could reach York Factory should 

 his hopes of making a final journey to King William's Land entirely 

 fail him. As far back as the 29th of July (before the mutiny) he had 

 written in his journal : 



I know not whether I and my company are to leave these regions this fall or 

 not. Most assuredly I have had no doubts but we should. All my expectations 

 and calculations have been to this point; but now as I look out upon Repulse Bay 

 and see it still fast in its ten months' icy chains, I must confess I begin to have 

 doubts. Many times a day I ascend our lookout hill to take long and prolonged 

 looks through my "spy" down to the southeastward, in the direction of the per- 

 petual open water that sweeps through Hurd's Channel and Frozen Strait across 

 to Beach Point, and thence rushes down Eowe's Welcome. No ship there afar off 

 to gladden my sight. It has been my plan that if none should enter Repulse 

 Bay by the 5th of August, I would embark in our boat Sylvia for York Factory. 

 But will it be prudent to attempt the voyage in this boat? I know that Dr. Eae 

 made a successful voyage here from that place, and the next year returned to it. 

 But his boats were large, heavy, and strong, and the Sylvia is of the lightest con- 

 struction possible ; her planks of cedar one-half inch thick only. 



During the illness of Colemnn, it was found out that at least one 

 of the other four men had said if he could not otherwise get a boat 



