114 Hall Corrects his Dates. [o^cembfr, in64. 



that's ri<ilit, that's v'vj([\X ; and seriiied imich relieved Irom the fright they liad bel'orc 

 been in while the late of the thief seemed doubtful; but in three minutes after, 

 not one of them wa« to be found uear the ships, for they hurried off to the huts 

 as fast as their legs aud sledges eould carry them. The example proved Just 

 what we desii*ed ; in less than eight aud forty hours, men, women, and chihlreu 

 came to the ships with the same contidence as before, always abusing Oo-oo-took, 

 pronouncing themselves and us uncommonly good people, but evidently more 

 cautious than before of really iucurriug our displeasure The occurrence just 

 related, instead of being placed to the account of these i)eople's bad propensi- 

 ties, rather served to remind us of the rareness of such occurrences, and, there- 

 fore, to fnrnish fresh proof of their general honesty. 



From a conversation held about this time, through Too-koo-U- 

 too as interpreter. Hall believed that he had gained the key to the 

 fact mentioned by Dr. Rae in his report to the Hudson Bay Com- 

 pany in 1854, that the natives at Pelly Bay had great objections 

 to his party traveling across the country in a westerly direction, 

 and had attempted to puzzle and mislead the interpreter. Hall was 

 told that " some of the Innuits with whom he was wintering, had tried, 

 together ^vitli others from Pelly Bay, to persuade Dr. Rae to go to 

 Shartoo, an island in Akkoolee Bay (the island called Prince of Wales 

 Island, and the bay, Committee Bay, in Dr. Rae's chart), where he 

 would find spars, rigging, casks, and boxes, and perhaps the hulk of a 

 vessel. They understood from him that tliese were the very things 

 he ANas looking for." The Innuits, therefore, professed that the objec- 

 tions referred to had been made in good faith, and in order to lead 

 Rae's party to the best locality. 



On the 28d, Hall discovered that he had lost a day in his reckon- 

 ing. JIo h;id not confided in liis dates for some time back, but now 

 loimd the means for a correction. Going to tlic top of a hill to 

 see tlic sun rise at 10 a. m., he saw it about a diameter and a 



