May, 1869.1 The Remains of one of Franklin's Men Found hy Hall. 40 1 



pockets of one of the men a jack-knife had been found, and alongside 

 of the remains, cans with meat in them which was eaten by the 

 Innuits. 



The next day Hall crossed over to the mainland to find, if possi- 

 ble, the place where two more of Franklin's men were said to have 

 been buried. Arriving near the mouth of Peffer River, the natives 

 built for him a snow-wall to keep off the wind and driving snow, that 

 he might take some sextant angles. But the sun appeared for a mo- 

 ment only, and but once. 



Late in the afternoon two of his attendants, after much labor, gave 

 him signs of success in digging through the snow for bodies, and on 

 hastening up to them he found one unburied skeleton. Over these 

 remains an American flag was raised half-mast, and a monument of 

 stones built up near by to the height of five feet. A salute was also 

 fired in honor of these remains as to those which Hall believed were 

 the form of one "of the heroes who had solved the problem of the 

 Northwest Passage." The gale above and the hardness and depth of the 

 snow under foot debarred further search. (See the close of this chapter.) 



Returning from this examination of the coast of King William's 

 Land, Hall made a second search on a point of the same southern 

 shore, but farther eastward; for, after close questioning the natives 

 Poo-yet'ta, In-nook-poo-^hee-jook, and Tilk-pee-too a third native met with 

 at his last encampment, he believed he might find the remains of still 

 another of Franklin's men. After traveling about a half hour, the 

 party halted on a long low spit, called by the natives Kung-e-ark-le- 

 ar-u, on which the men last named "knew that a white man had been 

 buried " This, however, was chiefly from the accounts which they 



had had from their people ; only one of these had ever seen the grave. 

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