43G THE POLAR WORLD. 



M^earing apparel for self, and red shirts for natives ; stationery and journal- 

 books ; Avatch, opera-glass, spy-glass ; sextant, pocket sextant, artificial horizon, 

 azimuth compass, common compass, two pocket compasses ; three ordinary and 

 two self-registering thermometers. Some navigation-books and several Arctic 

 works, with my Bible and a few other volumes, formed my library." The boat 

 and fixtures cost one hundred and twenty-five dollars; meat, biscuit, pemmican,. 

 etc., about two hundred and fifty dollars ; astronomical instruments, about one 

 hundred dollars ; guns and accoutrements, about two hundred and twenty-five 

 dollars; clothing, fifty dollars ; pipes and tobacco, twenty dollars; travelling ex- 

 penses and express payments, seventy-five dollars ; dog-team, bought in Green- 

 land, fifty dollars. The other items making up the nine hundred and eighty 

 dollars are all duly given. It will be seen that the balance left for minor, but . 

 necessary, expenditures was very small. 



New London, Connecticut, is the port from which vessels mainly sail for the 

 Arctic whale-fishery. Here was the place of business. Williams and Haven 

 largely engaged in that enterprise. They relieved Hall of a great load of 

 .anxiety by a brief note, in which they said : " As a testimony of our person- 

 al regard, and the interest we feel in the proposed expedition, we will convey 

 it and its required outfit, boats, sledges, provisions, instruments, etc., free of 

 charge, on the barque ' George Henry,' to Northumberland Inlet ; and, when- 

 ever desired, we will give the same free passage home in any of our vessels." 



On the 29th of May, 1860, the, " George Henry " set sail, with a crew, officers 

 and men, of twenty-nine souls. Accompanying as tender was a schooner, which 

 had a history. She was now known as the " Amaret ;" but under the name of 

 the " Rescue ' she had won fame in Arctic research, for in her Kane had made 

 his first Arctic voyage. Hall always calls her by her old name, and the ac- 

 count of her loss forms a striking episode in his narrative. 



We have said that Hall's expedition consisted of himself alone. But when 

 he started he had with him a companion, who he hoped would greatly aid him. 



This was Kudlago, an Innuit, who had 

 acquired some knowledge of our Ian- • 

 guage in Greenland from whalers, had 

 come to the United States on a whal- 

 ing-vessel, and was now anxious to re- 

 turn to Greenland. But he fell sick on 

 the voyage, and died on the 1st of July. 

 His last words were, " Do you see the 

 ice ?" for he knew that the appearance 

 of ice at this season would show that he 

 was near his home. He died three hun- 

 dred miles at sea, and was committed 

 to the ocean. Hall reading the funeral 

 J ' service. A great iceberg — the slender 



KUDLAGO. ^^^^ represented on page 48 of this vol- 



ume—was drifting close by, and Hall named it " Kudlago's Monument." 



On the n\i of July they reached Holsteinborg, the capital of the Danish col- 



