1 (]4 Arrival at the River. [April, ises. 



aiul the same in height. The concave sides of these facing south 

 were slieltering the women and children while fishing for salmon 

 through the openings which the men had cut. 



Ar-too-a's wife, being seized with a fit, was surrounded by her 

 friends who were about giN ing her up, when Hall succeeded in restor- 

 ing- her h\ the use of medicine, completing the cure on her second 

 attack. I'^bierbing and Too-koo-li-too sufi'ered from severe colds 

 which tliev took during tlie warm days, on one of which the tempera- 

 ture was as high as 33°. 5. The freedom from colds among the natives 

 was generally so marked that they attributed what discomfort they 

 had to their having caught colds from the white men on their visit to 

 tlie ships. On the 24th, Hall's party moved to his ninth igloo, and on 

 the next day the boats were sent forward to gain a position near 

 Wager River. The half-starved dogs were so ferocious as to be almost 

 unmanageable, but their loads were borne forward by the help of a 

 sail, rigged lug-fashion and spread to the southerly winds. They 

 moved rapidly along. On the journey, Too-koo-li-too caught "a whale 

 of a salmon" weighing more than 15 pounds. It was 37 J inches long 

 and 20 inches in cu'cumference, a ^^ Jonah'''' 13 inches long being found 

 within it. 



Traveling again over the hard snow which covered the long 

 narrow lakelets and the small space of land between them, the party 

 iiiaih- exceHent time through this highway between the rocks, which 

 had Ijceii long known and frequented by the natives. Five heavily- 

 loaded sleds jjiished forward, men, women, and children being har- 

 nessed to each to assist the dogs, and on the 29th the party went into 

 huts on the ic<' of tlic Wager, lat. C5° 19' N, long. 88° 40' W. The 

 severely cold, cloudy, and haz}- weather had produced snow-blind- 

 ness, with w hich (^ven El)ierbing had become affected. 



