Fcbriinry, IS65.] Arrivol cit Noo-wook. 143 



locality in the bay where a like success had not been met with Ijy 11. 

 M. S. Griper in 1824.* 



Beginning his journey at <S.?)0 in the morning, ho was accompanied 

 by SJioo-sJie-ark-nook, Ook-har-Ioo, Too-koo-li-too, and a girl named 

 Noiv-ycr. Their dogs numbered ten. After traveling 27 miles in an 

 easterly direction, they again quartered for the niglit in an igloo on the 

 sea-ice. The distance made on the second day was about the same 

 as that on the first, but on the third they lost their way, Hall's com- 

 passes proving totally unreliable. He was. glad again to trust himself 

 to the skillful guidance of the Innuits. Turning next to the north 

 they were met by a furious gale from the northeast, with thick snow, 

 shutting them up a second time on the ice of the Welcome, but the 

 next morning all was calm and "clear as a bell." 



They reached Noo-wooh on the 14th. 



Hall had suffered on the journey by the strange conduct of Shoo- 

 she-ark-nook, who had allowed each of the party but a few ounces from 

 the abundance of walrus-meat packed on the sled, although he ate 

 pounds of it himself and fed it to the dogs, and although Hall had 

 freely shared with him all his own bread and coffee. To keep up his 

 strength and warmth, for the supply of which to an Arctic ti-aveler 

 bread and coffee are not enough, he had submitted to eat the 

 unpalatable and tough Jcow (hide of the walrus). 



In accordance with the expectations he had held out to the natives 

 on New Year's Day, he now distributed to them the presents which he 

 had obtained from the ships. The bread which Ar-mou had sent back 

 to his family had unfortunately been stolen by the dogs on the jour- 



* Lyon's journal (p. 110) says: Marble I^^land, according to Middleton, is the only spot along 

 the whole American coast from Cliurcliill upward wliicli ail'ords tolerably good anclioragt>. 

 There is an excellent harbor in the island, but its entrance is dangerous. At spring tides there 

 are only 13 feet on the bar. The Griper drcAv 10 feet. 



