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and with his aid instantly killed the ferocious animal. At this point 

 in his Narrative Admiral Davis says: ''But for the rifles in this extreme 

 emergency, this story would not have been written." 



Joe and Hannah were natives of Cumberland Inlet, where Capt. 

 S. O. Budington, of Groton, first met them in the fall of 1851, on the 

 island of Kim-ick-su-ic, — an island that gets its name from its flat 

 center, which, covered with grass, gives it the look of a dog-skin. 

 Captain Budington wintered there (in about lat. 65° 30', long. 62°) 

 when in command of the McLellan, of New London. Hannah, who 

 was born at Cape Serrel, on the west side of Davis Strait, was at the 

 time of Captain Budington's visit only about twelve years of age, and 

 Joe, who was then married to another woman, seemed to Budington at 

 that time "as old as he does to-daj." Cape Serrel was a whaling 

 station, much visited by English and American sailors, and frequented 

 by the Eskimos of Cumberland Gulf for trade. A few years after- 

 ward, Mr. Bolby, a merchant of Hull, became much interested in these 

 two persons, and took them with him in his own vessel on his return 

 voyage from the Gulf In England he treated them as his guests with 

 great liberality. They were married in his house in the presence of a 

 large company, and, with Mr. Bolby, visited, in their native costume, 

 many places in England and Scotland, and were presented to Queen 

 Victoria, and dined with her and the Prince Consort. Hannah always 

 spoke of the Queen as "very kind, very much lady." 



Two years afterward they returned to Cumberland Inlet, and 

 there Hall first met them in 1860. Joe had just piloted two English 

 vessels into Cornelius Grinnell Bay through a narrow channel more 

 than one hundred miles in length. Both Joe and Hannah next accom- 

 panied Hall through all those investigations which led to the discovery 



