80 Belief Given to the Sick LOciober, i864. 



tlieir necessities both of food and medicine. He found them entirely 

 out of j)rovision. Coming quickly at his call, they made a meal with 

 him c)n a quarter of a pound of pemmican each, and took back a 

 supply for the breakfast of the women and children. She-nook-shoo, 

 Ooh-har-loo'' s son, was quite sick in his snow-house. His fever was 

 arrested, and he was restored, parti}- by medicines and partly by 

 nutritious food, the suppl}^ of which was controlled. The cooking, 

 OoJc-har-loo refused to have done in a kob-lu-na's iffloo. 



The poor people were not lacking in a free showing of thankful- 

 ness by words and acts. They had abundance of deer-meat within a 

 radius of 25 miles ; probably three hundred reindeer scattered over 

 the country in the different deposits which in their late hunting 

 season they had made, and which they now frequented to bring in 

 these supplies. Intercourse between them and Hall became still more 

 familiar. He often dined out ; and as often invited them to pemmican 

 and coffee. 



A cordial invitation and a full feast are thus described : Return- 

 ing from a walk to his third encampment, when coming near the 

 igloos, a band of boys and girls came running to meet him, crying 

 out, "/fi-e/e, kal-la, ea-tu, ea-tu; took-too tood-noo, am-a-siiit f^^ "Come 

 ([uick, for reindeer-meat and tallow are ])lenty." Following the youth- 

 lul company to the if/loos, he found a heavy load of deer skins and 

 meat just brought in on a sledge from one of the deposits. A whole 

 deer was part of the load. All the women of the village were present, 

 as this was to be an unusual feast. The meat was placed in one of 

 two igloos which were connected by a passage 10 feet in length, and of 

 Kuflfic.ient height for a man to stand uj) in it erect. In one igloo were 

 the women ; in tlic other, the whole reindeer was on the table-cloth — 



