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of 1803; the second had been buried on the first sledge journey to 

 King William's Land in 18G6; a third, which Joe adopted in 1868, with 

 tlie consent of its parents and by the gii't of a sled to them from Hall, 

 came with him to the United States in 18G9, Hannah named this 

 child Sylvia, after her friend Miss Grinnell. The girl was an intelli- 

 gent scholar at the Groton school until her death in 1875. 



The health of this couple had been repeatedly broken daring the 

 long period of suffering of the years 1864 to 1869; and they do not 

 seem to have been readily acclimated in the United States. The terri- 

 ble experience of the ice-floe especially had left severe traces on them. 

 During the year 1876, Hannah suffered much with that fatal disease 

 consumption ; a disease which carries off the larger number of her 

 race. It had been long gaining upon her. She bitterly felt the loss 

 of her last child and the absence of her husband, who, after having 

 been again out in the Arctic Regions with Capt. Allen Young, of the 

 Pandora, was then doing good service on board a vessel belonging to 

 the United States Fish Commission. Hannah had become a true 

 Christian: read her Bible, and showed a quiet, good life. After a 

 season of protracted suffering, throughout which she was tenderly 

 cared for by Mrs. Captain Budington and other friends in Groton, she 

 breathed her last, as the old year went out, December 31, 1876, at the 

 early age of 38. Her death was tranquil. Among her last words was 

 the petition, "Come, Lord Jesus, and take thy poor creature home!" 



In June, 1878, Joe again sailed for the Arctic zone with the party 

 spoken of in the Preliminary Chapter as sent out by Morison & 

 Brown, of New York, and commanded by Lieutenant Schwatka, to 

 prosecute a renewed search for the records of Sir John Franklin's 

 Expedition. Mr. J. Carson Brevoort, of New York, Mr. J. J. Copp, 



