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window of the ir/Ioo. He then commenced his talk with the spirits, 

 accompanied by clapping- of hands, jumping up and down, sideways 

 and forwards, and then backing- out from the igloo and returning. 

 During all this an-koo-ting one and another of the audience kept 

 repeating "words which seemed not unlike those of a penitent giving 

 in his experience at a revival meeting." 



By the middle of this month the Innuits had finished their work 

 on the reindeer-skins. Too-ko-li-too had labored for thirty days, fifteen 

 hours out of the twenty-four, during which time, with but little assist- 

 ance from Ebierbing even in cleaning the skins, she had made up, 

 besides bedding, seven complete fur suits ; two for Hall, two for her 

 husband, two for herself, and one for Rudolph. Preparation was now 

 busily made for moving off to the walrus-grounds, the first step toward 

 which was to cover the sledge-runners wdth muck, a kind of peat 

 obtained from a marsh after digging four feet through the snow and 

 about a foot into the frozen ground. The muck is saturated with 

 water, and a handful at a time placed on the runners at the very 

 coldest hour, to ice them. Several families moved off on the 15tli. 

 Ebierbing, who went forward with them to assist in erecting igloos, 

 saw flocks of ducks moving south. The first huts which were built 

 were four connected ones having a common central place. In Hall's, 

 Too-koo-li-too first covered the snow-bed place with boards, and put 

 over these a quantity of diy shrubs and the reindeer-furs. Before 

 flail had left his old hut, on learning that the Innuit customs forbade 

 the burning of shrubs in a new home, he had roasted enough coffee 

 for a supply of two months. And before leaving the first igloo he had 

 made the honest record in his journal, that on a visit from Oii-e-la 



