CHATTER VI. 



The tiiiuteenth encampment made upon the Wagek Eiver— A successful sealing season — 

 Hall's own ppvIze— Eejoicings at the first success of a young Innuit— Customs at 

 the birth of an infant— Moving from kong-mongs into tu-piks — Appearance of the 

 deserted village — Aurora — Journey to Eepulse Bay — Eefraction — Encampment 



ON -OOG-LA-RIO-YOUR ISLAND— OU-E-LA'S DEXTERITY IN HUNTING — GaSIE SECURED— TlIlC 

 MAKING OF OOK-GOOK LINES— CLEARING OUT OF THE ICE — APPEARANCE OF THE WHALERS 



IN THE Welcome — Effraction- Storm — Treatment of the dogs— The tides — Death 

 of Shoo-she-ark-nook— Mourning customs — Eenewed appearance of wilvlers in 

 Eepulse Bay — Capture of a whale by the crews of Hall's boats — Encampment 

 near Fort Hope of Dr. Eae — Hall's notes of the rocks, stones, and sand found on 

 the ice compared with Parry's observations. 



At the end of nine weary months Hall had now but reached the 

 place on which he had expected to make his first landing. His 

 encampment was next made on the ice out in the Wager. Its astro- 

 nomical ])osition when recorded, was followed by a note of the accu- 

 rate judgment shown at the time by Ou-e-la and Ar-too-a ''in keeping 

 in their mind's eye so approximately the direction of distant points." 

 When separately directing the compass at Hall's request toward Noo- 

 wooJc, sixty-two miles distant, they pointed it in lines differing but one 

 degree; and on Hall's applying the correction for declination, he found 

 the bearing nearly agreeing with his own result. 



On the 3d of the month the party witnessed a fine auroral dis- 

 play in the western sky ; the color was nearly a medium between 



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