CHAPTER IV. 



Hall's ministrations to the suffering — Their gratitude— Feasts described— Ebikrbin<; 



ANKOOTED — An AURORA — MAGNETIC OBSERVATORY ERECTED — SlEDGE JOURNEY DOWN 



THE Welcome — Musk-ox hunt — A fox caught in his own trap— Customs in making 



REINDEER DEPOSITS — A BEAR SLAIN — PREPARATION OF SKINS — HaLL'S SEAL HUNT— I'LAY- 

 ING THE KEY-LOW-TIK— KEMOVAL TO THE WALRUS-GKOXTNDS— OU-E-La'S INNUIT STORIES- 



Visit by the natives to the whale-ships at Depot Island — Alleged reasons for 



ADVICE GIVEN BY THE INNUITS TO DR. EaE IN 1854— DISCOVERY THAT A DAY HAD BEEN 

 LOST IN THE RECKONING— PRESENTS RECEIVED FROM THE WHALERS— SUCCESSFUL WALRUS 

 HUNT. 



A gale from the northwest, which had prevailed for three days, 

 was followed on the 8th by a day with scarcely a cloud in the sky. 

 The temperature was quite low ; the thermometer inside the tent had 

 read 10*^. Hall with difficulty wrote out his notes, and began to fear 

 he might lose his ink. Digging out from a wide snow-drift a box 

 which contained two standard thermometers, he was glad to lind tlicm 

 unbroken. They showed a temperature of 20°, the air outside tlie 

 drift being 10^. 



Although still suffering much from an abscess close to the ball 

 of his right eye, and fearing that the left eye was also endangered, he 

 had occasion to renew his visits of assistance to the natives, to supply 



