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 i68 Travellers and Explorers, 1846 1900 ers was Charles Francis Hall. His heart was so thoroughly in the work, at first a search for Franklin, that he made three fruitful expeditions and would have continued had he not mysteriously died in full health on the last journey. The first expedition was on an ordinary whaling ship to the Eskimos, with whom he lived for two years in 1860-62. On the second trip he again lived with Eskimos in 1864-69, and on the third voyage in 1 87 1 in the Polaris he got to 82° 1 1 ', at the Polar ocean via Smith Sound. His Narrative of the [Third or Polaris] North Polar Expedition (1876) was edited by C. H. Davis: the Nar- rative of the Second Arctic Expedition to Repulse Bay (1879) was edited by Prof. J. E. Nourse. That of Hall's first journey was published in 1864, the year in which he started on his second, with the title A rctic Researches and Life among the Eskimaux. He was the first, or one of the first, to note that the Eskimos knew the geography of their environment and could make maps of it. Some reproductions of such maps occur in Hall's voltmies. E. V. Blake's Arctic Experiences (1874) contains an account of Captain George E. Tyson's drift on the ice-floe, a history of the Polaris expedition, and the rescue of the Polaris survivors. The next American to push north with the great idea was Lieutenant De Long under the auspices of the New York Herald. A vessel named the Jeanette, supplied with provisions for three years, sailed in July, 1879, from San Francisco, entering the Polar Sea through Bering Strait. The Jeanette was sunk by ice in June, 1 88 1. The crew got to Herald Island and thence steered for the mouth of the Lena River in three boats, of which one was lost ; and the crew of another, including De Long, starved and froze to death on land, while George W. Melville and nine more reached a small native village. After a fruitless search for the others he came home, to return again to the search. He wrote In the Lena Delta, A Narrative of the Search for Lieutenant Commander De Long, and his Companions (1885). Another volume is. The Narrative of the Jeanette Arctic Expedi- tion as Related by the Survivors, etc. Revised by Raymond Lee Newcomb (1882). The naval officer in command of the search party (1882-84), Giles Bates Harber, found De Long's body and nine other remains, and brought them home for burial. He wrote a Report of Lieut. G. B. Harber of his Search for Missing People of the Jeanette Expedition (1884). William