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Ebierhing'S Night- Watch. 



[ITIarch, liStiS. 



it was about 4 inches on one side of the center. Filhng this up care- 

 fulK' witli a small piece of snow, he made another cut, which he found 

 to be central. A small hair from his Ixoo-li-tang (outer reindeer-frock) 

 having" fallen very near the hole he had made, he at once stoj)ped, 

 and Avith the greatest care removed it, remarking to Hall that the seal 



would ''smell um quick, and away 

 it go." Then cutting a block of 

 snow an inch square and 8 inches 

 long, he set it up over the last hole, 

 and filled in about it with loose 

 snow, leaving 3 inches of it above 

 the surface for a mark by which to 

 direct his harpoon when the time 

 came to strike. Seated on a single 

 snow-block, with his back to the 

 southwest wind, he tied his clothes 

 about him, as already noted in 

 Nu-ker-zhod's case, and commenced 

 his weary watch. He did not, 

 however, build a wall around the 



EBIERBIXG GOING OUT ON HIS HUNT. ^^^^^^^ telhug Hall that hls OWU COUU" 



trymen at Cumberland Gulf did not do this for fear of frightening the 

 animal by the noise made in putting it up. Hall left him to his lonely 

 watch, the temperature of the air being — 34°. Joe was as unfor- 

 tunate an Nu-ker-zhoo in having no visit from the seal to his hole; but 

 he shot one in the open water, yet found it impossible to secure it. 



The Aneroid indicated, on the 10th, a fall of 4 J tenths of an inch. 

 TIk' wind again blew with almost the force of a hurricane, and one 



