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Remarks on board Bk [BARK] Concordia B N Rogers Master

one of our most eloquent speakers and who took the important character of Damon in the play came forward and made a few appropriate remarks relitive [RELATIVE] to the expedition of Mr Hall stating the solitude which must naturaly [NATURALLY] accompany a solatary [SOLITARY] white man placed in his situation. He then crosed [CROSSED] the stage shook hands with Mr Hall and Mr Hall in return walked to the front of the stage and again addressed the audiance [AUDIENCE]. He stated his views as to carring [CARRYING] out of his expedition in search of the survivors of Sir John Franklyn [FRANKLIN]. Mr Hall has two very inteligent [INTELLIGENT] natives a male and female or in other words a man and his wife. His former voyage was up the Cumberland Sound. There it was that he fell in with these two natives and being very inteligent [INTELLIGENT] they very soon mastered the English language suficiently [SUFFICIENTLY] well to accompany him on his voyage. At the expiration of the voyage he went to Scotland accompynated [ACCOMPANIED] with his two natives. From there he proceded [PROCEEDED] to London and had the very great pleasure of introduceing [INTRODUCING] his to [TWO] friends the natives to her Majesty the Queen of England. From there he returned to his native country the United States and there he introduced his friends in many of the largest citys [CITIES]. He than made prepperations [PREPARATIONS] for another voyage that is the present voyage and sailed in company with his two friends on board the whale ship Monticello the first of June 1864. Since that time he told us in his address last eavning [EVENING] he had made very important discoveries relative to Franklyn's [FRANKLIN'S] expedition or rather the survivers [SURVIVORS] of that expedition. It appears that from some Northern native he gained intligence [INTELLIGENCE] that some 4 years ago near King William[']s land 4 white men was found by the natives walking on the ice and of those 4 men was none other than the man that succeed Sir John Franklyn [FRANKLIN] after his death.