IGo Ou-e-Ja Returns from Depot Island. [Aprii. ises. 



there for aiiv sledge journey. It will be found that his anticipations 

 of an\' treachery on the part of his companions were far from being 

 realized. He was able to company with them safely through the long 

 delays of live years. 



The. movements of the different parties of Innuits toward the 

 AVager were now dictated by their necessity for a change of residence 

 to obtain the supplies which the opening season promised from the 

 capture of salmon and the seal. These movements, as would be ex- 

 pected, were fitful and the journeys generally slow. Hall's entire 

 dependence on them is sufficiently obvious ; and it is satisfactory to 

 find in his journals that any temporary break in the exercise of that 

 mutual good feeling which was to him a necessity, was soon healed. 

 His friends, the captains at the islands, had rendered him good assist- 

 ance toward this, by exhorting Ou-e-la on his protracted visit to give 

 on his return better counsels to his people. This he seems to have 

 iaitlifully done. 



He surprised Hall on the 1st day of the month by coming in 

 ujjoii liini in his igloo with his wife and a sled which he had heavily 

 loaded up from a deposit twenty miles down the Welcome, "^^rhe 

 rough working of this sled over the ice had made him perspire very 

 freely, l)ut he at once called for repeated draughts of water, on 

 Hall's remonstrating against which, Ebierbing said that quart after 

 (piart iie\er hurt an Eskimo when perspiring. Ou-e-la brought with 

 nuuli news from Captain Chapel, the luxuries of some ship-bread and 

 half a dozen mince-pies; he also brought a large-sized neit-yuk, seal 

 (Phocd htsp'iiln). Room in the igloos was readily made for the new- 

 comers, whose hrst meal with their friends was again ruled by Innuit 

 custom. Ou-c-la had eaten venison in the morning ; he could not now 



