appendix: IV. 



HALL'S CONVERSATIONS WITH THE INN CITS. 



Prefatory Note to the Extracts from Haxl's Conversations with 



THE INNUITS IN THE YEARS 18G4, 18G8, AND 18G9— PAPER A, CONVER- 

 SATIONS HELD DURING THE EARLY PART OF HALL'S ARCTIC RESI- 

 DENCE, December, 18G4— Paper B, Conversations held on the 



JOURNEY TO AND RETURN FROM THE STRAITS OF FURY AND HeCLA, 



April, 18G8 — Paper C, Conversations held with a native of King 

 William's Land and with others after Hall's visit to that re- 

 gion, 18G9. 



The extracts which follow show Hall's carefulness to come at the truth in 

 regard to what he was seeking to learn from the Eskimos. His questions and 

 cross-questions of individuals — taking them separately and, at times, when as- 

 sembled in an igloo — evince care and skill. He availed himself of the watchful- 

 ness of his faithful interpreter, Hannah. 



The publication in the columns of the New York Journal of Commerce of 

 part of the extracts from his journals, to be found in Paper A, created at the 

 time some excitement. Papers B and C are specimens of the talks which are 

 found recorded with care in Books A and B, which have been returned to the 

 Observatory by the courtesy of Lady Franklin's niece. Miss Sophia Cracroft, of 

 London. These two books bear the indorsement of Captain Hall : — 



" This tenth day of January, 1871, sent by Express to England to be deliv- 

 ered to Lady Franklin in Trust. Lady F., Miss Cracroft, and Admiral Sir Leo- 

 pold McClintock may read them ; no copv or copies to be made." 



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