QG Dr. Baci's Oii-Ug-huck. [Sepieiub.r, is6i. 



uncleanly lists. Having iirst sponged off with soap and water "the 

 thick coat of primitive soil " which covered Ook-har-loo^ s whole face, 

 and then presented her with a piece of cotton cloth for her owr. use 

 in cleansing her eyes, he received her profound thanks for this appli- 

 cation of nature's remedy, with the declaration that he was the best 

 t>f Au-<jr-kos. This woman remembered that when very young she 

 had staid aboard Parry's ship, and showed tattooing done upon one 

 (if her legs at that time by Crozier's men. 



The acquaintance made with the Eskimos was now daily im- 

 proved by inquiries in regard to the expeditions of Parry, Ross, Rae, 

 and Franklin, in order that, by comparing with the official narratives 

 of those officers what could now be heard from these people, Hall could 

 learn what confidence to place in their accounts of Franklin. He was 

 much encouraged by the seeming correctness of their replies. Among 

 these, Ar-too-a, whose age w^as about thirty, gave him a long account 

 of the very serious wounds received by Ou-Ug-huck, one of Dr. Rae's 

 interpreters. Ar-too-ci's story, as found in Hall's journal of the day, 

 corresponds closely wath the record given by Rae himself of the acci- 

 dental wound and the healing of Ou-lig-htick to be found on pages 

 95 and 1)G of the Narrative of Rae's Expedition to the Arctic Seas in 

 1846-'47. Ar-too-a further said that he and his brothers Oii-c-la and 

 Shu-she-ark-nook had seen Rae on each of his expeditions of 184G and 

 18rj4, and that "although Ou-Ug-huck, father and son, and most of 

 tlie wliitc men smoked. Dr. Rae never did." They all knew Rae's 

 " merry Ir'ttchuk.'''' Hall was much gratified on receiving such details 

 of incidents which occurred nearly eighteen years previous. 



Tlic l.otli was a day of gale from the north. The Welcome was 

 laslied into a fury, and the cold winds drove far inland everything 



