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THE POLAR WORLD. 



wearing apparel for self, and red shirts for natives ; stationery and journal- 

 books ; watch, 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 ; travelHng 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 lan- 

 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 

 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 1th. of July they reached Holsteinborg, the capital of the Danish col- 



