lOG Budolph Dismissed. [December, ise-i. 



to death. A part of the time lie had been separately put in charge of 

 one of the natives. He now looked forward with g-reat satisfaction to 

 resuming his life on shipboard and to ship-diet The parting was 

 friendly. Hall gave him a letter to the captain of the Monticello, ask- 

 ing that he would get a place for him on one of the whalers. Rudolph 

 was also cautioned to have care of himself on the sledge journey, and 

 the natives were requested to see that he should not be frost-bitten. 

 At the same time a confidential history of Rudolph's conduct was sent 

 to the ship, lest the man should gain credit if he attempted to spread 

 misrepresentations among the whalers. His dissatisfaction and his 

 uselessness to Hall had been largely owing to his disease of homesick- 

 ness and, during the latter part of his time, to an attack of scurvy. 



A second letter to Captain Chapel requested that he would grant, 

 at Hall's cost, whatever reasonable requests the natives might make, if 

 the value of the articles asked for by them sliould exceed that of the 

 skins and clothing taken down by them for barter. Among the articles 

 for which Hall himself asked were a gun, a spy-glass, some walrus- lines, 

 and tobacco, with a loaf of bread and a piece of butter for Too-koo-li- 

 too. He wanted 50 pounds of tobacco, for it went further than any- 

 thing else in gaining the good-will and help of the natives. Ou-e-la 

 waited for the dispatches, which were made up by 9 a. m., and then 

 overtook the sleds a mile in advance out on the rough ice, where the 

 dogs were howling and springing with all their might to be off. Hall 

 went with him that far, and on parting gave Ou-e-la a kiss (Ivo-nik) 

 on his iron though warm cheek. The journal says : 



TIk; sun Ava.s just lifting its glorious face from the ice horizon of Ivowe's Wel- 

 come. The air was calm and the temperature 92° below freezing-point by my large 

 thermometer; therefore it was dry and exhilarating. The heavens, opposite the 

 sun, were glowing in warm crimson clouds, their upper edges tinted with purple 



