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he has just completed. But his journals and drawings are preserved, and 

 will undoubtedly see the light. Of their value, as they stand, I have means 

 of knowing something ; and trust that he may return safely, and be able to re- 

 vise them for publication. In a few weeks he will have set out on his third 

 voyage. From the capacity which he has manifested in two expeditions, occu- 

 pying together more than ten years, and from the abundant resources now at 

 his disposal, there is every reason to hope that he will be able to solve the 

 remaining problems relating to the Arctic regions. If there be, as there is 

 good reason to suppose, an open sea surrounding the North Pole ; and if that 

 sea is accessible to man, by land or by water, we can hardly doubt that Hall, 

 certainly the first of white men, and most likely first of all men, will make 

 his way to it. 



Until such time as he shall have returned from his present voyage, we bid 

 him hail and farewell. And also, copying his own last drawing made during 

 his first expedition, we bid farewell to the Innuits — that interesting people 

 whom he is the first fairly to introduce to the world ; since he was the first 

 white man who ever lived with them, faring summer and winter as they fared, 

 and experiencing with them the pleasures and the sorrows ©f their hyperbo- 

 rean life. 



FAREWELL OF THE INNUITS. 



[Barely two years after the foregoing was written, tidings came of the death of Hall., and the prob- 

 able failure of his expedition. In an additional chapter at the close of this volume will be found an ac- 

 count, so far as is now known, of this expedition.] 



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