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hung for their infirmities, but to prevent an investigation by tlie 

 white man it was reported to him that they had committed suicide. 



In the following year during November on his second trip 

 toward King William's Land, Hall met with another evidence of 

 the cruelty of the Pelly Bay natives toward their sick or aged 

 people, which he describes as follows: 



"When the party wished to encamp at night on the 14th of the 

 month, they took possession of a newly-deserted igloo. It was 

 dark at 4 p. M., when they entered, but soon afterward an Innuit 

 known as Tom came in with his child from one of his deer-meat 

 caches. He brought the news that Ar-tunrj-un the man who at 

 Ig-loo-lik had once exchanged names with Hall was at the point 

 of death in a village a little northward. Hall visited him the 

 next day, but found that the poor consumptive was past saving, 

 and was insisting that his son should end his sufferings by stab- 

 bin o" him or bv shooting him with an arrow, against which Hall's 



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earnest interposition was ineffectual. The igloo which he had 

 been occupying had been built by Ar-tung-uns son, that he might 

 remove to it instantly on his father's death, and so avoid the loss 

 of several days of mourning. The day following this dutiful 

 son hung his father." 



DISCOVERING THE SKELETONS OF FRANKLIN' S TARTY. 



HALL was prevented from reaching King William's Land, in 



1868, by dissensions and mutiny among his men. Frequent fail- 

 ures, however, in no wise diminished his ardor and determination 

 to find the remains of the Franklin party, which had been defi- 

 nitely located by various corroborative reports received from the 

 Esquimaux. He therefore set out for the third time, in March, 



1869, and this time succeeded almost beyond his most sanguine 

 expectations, for he found the skeletons of nearly a score of the 

 unfortunate party, besides boats, records, instruments, and other 

 relics, which enabled him to determine the results of Franklin's 

 expedition as well as its fate. In a letter which he wrote from 

 Eepulse Bay to Mr. Grinuell, dated June 20, 1869, he summed 

 up the results of his search as follows : 



" The results of my sledge journey to King William's Land 



