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PREFACE. 



their country able to speak with them, to live among them, to 

 support my life in the same manner that they do theirs ; to mi- 

 grate with them from place to place, and to traverse and patiently 

 explore all the region in which it is reasonable to suppose Frank- 

 lin's crew traveled and perished. I shall be accompanied by the 

 two intelligent Esquimaux, Ebierbing and Tookoolito, who, hav- 

 ing accompanied me on my return from my first expedition, and 

 after remaining with me for two years, now go back with me on 

 this second voyage. 



I enter upon this undertaking with lively hopes of success. I 

 shall not, like previous explorers, set my foot on shore for a few 

 days or weeks, or, like others, journey among men whose language 

 is to me unintelligible. I shall live for two or three years among 

 the Esquimaux, and gain their confidence ; and I have the ad- 

 vantage of understanding the language, and of making all my 

 wishes known to them. 



I will not close without offering my thanks to my Publishers 

 for their patience and courtesy ; to the Artists for the beautiful 

 and accurate drawings made by them, under my own eye, from 

 my rough sketches ; and to the Engravers and Printers for their 

 constant forbearance in the trouble I gave them, unaccustomed 

 as I was to literary labors, yet anxious to obtain the utmost ex- 

 actness in my narrative. 



C. F. H. 



June 30, 1864, on board bark Monticello, ) 

 bound for the Arctic Regions. ) 



