444 Their First Visit to the United States. 



of Frobisher's Bay and the Frobislier relics ; in 1862 they came with 

 him to the United States. 



Hannah's willingness to leave her country seems to have been 

 produced by her desire to keep with her, her husband, who was at the 

 time being persuaded to leave her for another wife. His uncle U-gack 

 was reported as having had twenty wives, three of them living with 

 him at one time. At the time of Hall's return to the United States, 

 Joe, who had been sick, was ordered by the an-ge-Jco to take another 

 wife as the only way to get well; but to his own best future success, 

 as is well known, he came over with Hannah to the United States. 

 His father had died when quite young ; his half-brother Ita-loo, left 

 on the island, was met with in the year 1873 by Captain Greer, 

 U. S. N , of the relief ship Tigress, came with him to New York, spent 

 the winter in Groton, and died shortly after getting back to his 

 native land. 



Joe and Hannah, after, as has been shown, assisting Hall in his 

 preparations for the Second Expedition, and closely attending him 

 through the years 1864—1869, again accompanied him on his last 

 voyage in the Polaris, 1871, and returned to the United States with 

 the Floe Party. They were as much attached to " Father Hall," as 

 he was to them. 



In a home purchased for them by him, in Groton, Connecticut, 

 they again commenced housekeeping in 1873, readily adapting them- 

 selves to the customs of civilized life. Joe became a good carpenter 

 and farm-hand, retaining his old love for fishing. Hannah was soon 

 skillful in making up, with the help of her sewing-machine, furs and 

 other salable articles for the people of New London and Groton. 



Their first child, Tu-ke-li-ke-ta, had died in New York in the winter 



