CONTENTS. iii 



the koy-low-tik — Removal to the walnis-^^roiiiMls— Ou-c-la's Iiniiiit slorics — Visit 

 by tlio natives to the wlialc-ships at Depot Island— Alleged reasons for a«lvico 

 given hy the lunuits to Dr. Eac in 1854— Discovery that a day had been lost in 

 the reckoning — Presents received from the whalers— Successful walnis-hunt 79-123 



CHAPTET^ V. 



WENTEE LIFE AND JOURNEY TO THE WAGER. 



January to May, 18C5. 



New Year's Day— Hall's speech — Feasting— Brilliant auroras- He visits, with the Innuits, 

 the whalers at Depot Island — Hospitalities and amusements on hoard — Return to 

 Noo-wook — Shoo-she-ark-nook jiersuades some of the Innnits to abandon Hall — 

 Suiiposed earthqua,ke — New orders of the An-ge-ko — Meteorological observations 

 — Want of confidence iu the instruments — Experiments as to the freezing-iioint of 

 mercury — Severity of the cold — Difficulty in making records — Hall's brass tablets — 

 Supplies nearly exhausted — Ebierbing comes to the rescue — Flocks of eider-ducks 

 iu the Welcome — Native customs in sealing — Nu-ker-zhoo's and Ebierbing's ill- 

 success — Supplies of provision, fuel, and light nearly gone — Plenty restored — The 

 season moderating — Plan for survey of the Welcome — Hall's broken health — The 

 tides in the river — Removal to the Wager l'^7-l(;4 



CHAPTER VI. 



FROM THE WAGER TO FORT HOPE. 



May' to September, 1865. 



The thirteenth encampment made upon the Wager River — A successful sealing season — 

 Hall's own prize — Rejoicings at the fii'st success of a young Innuit — Customs at the 

 birth of an infant — Moving from kom-mongs into tupiks — ^Appearance of the 

 deserted village — Aurora — Journey to Repulse Bay — Eefraction — Encampment on 

 Oog-la-ri-your Island — Ou-e-la's dexterity in hunting — Game secured — The making 

 of ook-gook lines — Clearing out of the ice — Ajipearance of the whalers in the 

 Welcome — Refraction — Storm — Treatment of the dogs — The tides — Death of Shoo- 

 she-ark-nook — Mourning customs — Renewed api>earance of whalers in Rei>ulse 

 Bay — Capture of a whale by the crews of Hall's boats — Encampment near Fort 

 Hope of Dr. Eae — Hall's notes of the rocks, stones, and sand found on the ice, com- 

 pared with Parry's observations 1(>7-10S 



