September, 1864.] Holl EnCmiqJS (it NoO-lVOOlc. Cu] 



To this proposition Hall readily acceded, and made A\itli tliis 

 chief and his people at Noo-wook his second encampment, the jjosition 

 of which has been already given. It is to be remarked, however, that 

 this position and the succeeding ones which may be named are approx- 

 imate only. His astronomical observations, reduced from liis i(»u;ili 

 notes under the superintendence of Mr. E. W. D. Bryan, will be found 

 in Appendix I. 



The tribe was one whose usual residence was at the head of Re- 

 pulse Bay. They had often held intercourse there and at Depot 

 Island with the American whalers; had their English names from 

 them, and had in their possession the boats and hunting implements of 

 civilized life. 



Hall and his two Eskimos were soon at home among them, Ebier- 

 bing and Too-koo-li-too acting from the first as his intei-preters, and 

 finding but little difficulty in this, as the difference between the new 

 dialect and that of the Cumberland Gulf people was readily over- 

 come. Hall's first notes speak of OueMs people as one would speak of 

 old acquaintances. 



On the 7th [he says], first came into my tupik Artooa, Frank, with liis wife 

 and family, with their dogs and their panniers ; in the evening, Ouela the chief, 

 and Ar7nou. Armou slept with me, and all the natives shared my breakfast. 

 Frank made me a present of six reindeer- tongues and some salmon. 



Going ofP in the morning on a hunt with Artooa, Nu-ker-zhoo, and 

 Rudolph, Hall met with both white and black I^w/c-too— reindeer— and 

 Ebierbing again succeeded in killing two. Returning in the evening 

 he joined heartily with his Eskimo brothers in their first Ankoothiff 

 service, a superstitious ceremony more than once to be noted in these 

 pages, and which occasioned many of Hall's subsequent troul)l(s. 1 lis 



