102 Hall An-kOO-ted. I November, 1S64. 



wives for the niglit* This, Hall effectually intervened to forbid. He 

 records, also, the clear testimony of the wife of one of the Innnits in 

 behalf of Too-koo-li-too herself that she had repelled the previously 

 attempted efforts on the part of the other women to persuade her to 

 accept the decree. 



In a time of sickness during the month Hall himself had been 

 prevailed on to be an-kooted, and the an-ge-ko had told him that his 

 sickness had been owing to his having eaten on his first expedition 

 tood-uoo prepared in a wrong way, and to the fact that he had left in 

 his own country an enemy who had tried to do him harm. When he 

 acknowledged that these two things were true, the Innuits were much 

 pleased with the evidence of power in their an-ge-ko^ and Hall con- 

 sented to obey the decree given him, that he should never again wear 

 certain garments which had been presented to him by some of his 

 Innuit friends. 



During the last days of the month several walrus hunts were 

 entered upon, the first success in which was prevented by the poorness 

 of the seal-skin lines which had been made to supply the loss of the 

 stronger ones missed some time before from their place of deposit. 

 From unmistakable signs noticed when they had gone down the coast 

 for these lines, the natives were satisfied that they had been stolen by 

 some party from one of the whale-ships. Hall accompanied them on 



* Heame says of the Indian tribes on the Sea of the North : "It is a very common custom 

 in this country to exchange a night's hedging with each other's -wives ; l)ut this is so far from 

 being considered criminal that it is esteemed one of the strongest ties of friendship between the 

 two families ; in case of tlie death of either man the other considers himself bound to support the 

 cliildren of the deceased. This duty is never neglected. (Heame, j). 129.) Father Veniaminoff, 

 a Russian priest, who labored among the Aleutiaii tribes, is quoted by Mr. Dall as saying that 

 formerly they i»racticed frequent secret orgies, and that "a guest shared all marital rights ti-ith Ms 

 host." These customs, however, as is well known, are not exclusively those of the North Ameri- 

 can tribes. 



