428 IlalJ, Ilanuah, and Joe on Board Ship. [August, ism. 



Factory; God be j)raised, for he doth continually bless me." A few 

 days after this, such stores and provisions as would not be needed 

 were liberally distributed among his Innuit friends, with whom he 

 spent a whole night in feasting and in a last talk about the lost ones 

 of Franklin's Expedition. In the morning, four boats, manned by the 

 natives, carried out to the Ansell Gibbs all the bone, and with it sixty- 

 eight musk-ox skins, and all the journals and note-books of this five- 

 year Arctic residence. At midnight. Hall, with Eskimo Joe, Hannah, 

 and her adopted child Pun-na, were safe on board Captain Fisher's 

 vessel, bound for a short cruise down the Welcome, and thence to the 

 United States. In noting his leave-taking of the Innuits, he records 

 some strong expressions of a regret at parting from those with whom 

 he had companied so long ; adding that they had learned to call him 

 "father," and that for their sakes he would try to persuade the Hud- 

 son Bay Company to establish a factory on Repulse Bay, as an 

 enterprise hopeful of good to both parties. He was now certainly 

 well prepared to judge of this, for his acquaintance had extended 

 itself to a number of tribes inhabiting the middle region of the Conti- 

 nent, and to this acquaintance was added his previous two years' expe- 

 rience with those on the east side — on Cumberland Gulf — as well as 

 his visit to Greenland. 



The Ansell Gibbs left Repulse Bay on the 13th, but remained at 

 and near AVhale Point, (the spot on which Hall had hoped first to land 

 in 1864,) until the 28th, Captain Fisher here employing his crew in 

 further boat expeditions in search of whales. Hall and Ebierbing fre- 

 quently engaged in hunting on shore, securing a large number of deer. 

 Including the net })i(»(hicts of a Polar bear, also killed by the two 



