338 Hall's Second Arctic Expedition. [ May, 
The captains of the whaling fleet, notwithstanding their previous 
promises, now refused to spare him any of their men for this 
journey. 
His courage and perseverance were, however, equal to the situ- 
ation, and he resolutely declined to return home in the autumn. 
A fourth winter found him still in his igloo at his old quarters. 
But his attention was now suddenly diverted from King William’s 
Land to the northern extremity of Melville peninsula on the 
shore of Fury and Hecla strait where he now heard of the exis- 
tence of a monument, and was told that two white men had been 
seen there only three years before. Accordingly on March 23, 
1868, he started for this region. The monument was discovered 
on the 24th of April in lat. 69° 47’ 5” N., long. 85° 15’ W., near 
Cape Crozier. “On either side of the plain on which it stands 
is a river, and hills of delta are north-east of it. It is one hun- 
dred feet above the sea, and near a hill upon the south side of the 
plain.” ‘The spot visited had not been reached by any previous 
Arctic explorer. Parry’s officers were not on this western side of 
the peninsula, and Dr. Rae’s highest point was 69° 5/ 35” N. 
(Rae’s Narrative, p. 128).” “Dr. Rae could not possibly have 
made this monument and cache, for they both belong together ; 
the latter covered with a deep drift every winter, and when Rae 
was at Cape Crozier in May 1846, the bank of snow must have 
been as deep and hard as the one now there. Besides, Dr. Rae’s 
track-chart does not show that he visited the south-east angle of 
' Parry bay.” ‘ 
The spot, near by where the Innuits stated a cache had been 
made and afterwards removed, leaving the stones in a pile on one 
side, was covered by a huge bank of snow, and after digging to 
the depth of fifteen feet they were unable to find the stones. Two 
tenting places also were found, one of which being very different 
in character from the other made by Esquimaux, was in all prob- 
ability the work of white men. Hall took down the monument, 
stone*by stone, but found nothing to indicate who were its 
builders. : 
The heretofore unsurveyed coast line between Capes Englefield 
and Crozier was now accurately laid down. An island was dis- 
covered north-west of Cape Englefield, and the islands off the 
cape and the line of the southern coast as far as East cape searched 
thoroughly for monuments or the evidences of the presence of 
