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Ar-movJs sled had on it his whale-boat presented by the captains of 

 the ships, which was 28 feet in length, with (j feet beam, and 2J feet 

 depth. Besides this boat, with its oars and rigging, the sled held 

 household utensils and provision; yet the team was made up of but 

 six dogs. Nu-ker-zlioo had but two dogs and a puppy for a load usu- 

 ally requiring a team of eight ; but the journey before them prom- 

 ised to be over comparatively smooth and hard snow. Ver}^ soon 

 Ar-mou stopped his team and gave each of his dogs a most unmerci- 

 ful thrashing ''just to warm them up and prepare them for their hard 

 work." 



Four days after they left him, and while Hall and Ebierbing were 

 in their igloo finishing their own packing, they heard the cry of dogs, 

 and soon after, the sound of their pattering feet and the music of the 

 sleds gliding over the crisp snow. Unharnessed dogs then came bound- 

 ing into the igloo, seizing whatever had the appearance of meat or skin; 

 hunger had made them fiends, and blows from a club or hatchet that 

 would have killed an ordinary dog were necessary to save what 

 remained of the f)rovender. Their masters, Oii-e-la and Ar-too-a, next 

 appeared, and it was evident that Ou-e-la had brought his companions 

 to a better mind toward Hall, for they joined cordially in loading up 

 the stores and assisting him to start. 



In the afternoon, after journeying over compact snow 14J miles 

 in a direction north-northwest from the last encampment, Hall came 

 to the new settlement already made by the advanced parties on a lake- 

 let, and was warmly received. By meridian observation of the sun, 

 the latitude of this "eighth encampment" was found to be G4° 55' 

 1 9" N. On the lake were seen a number of snow-walls, measuring 

 each nearly two-thirds of a circle of from four to five feet in diameter 



