Jaa«, 1865.1 



Encampment on Bepulse Bay. 



177 



INNCIT IVORY COMB. 



INNllT BONK COMB. 



ing, his father was searching the boy's head for Jcoo-mils for liis supper. 



Upon the floe, Ar-goo-moo-too-Uk, who, with his faniily, had come up by 



land, was discovered not far 



off, urging forward liis dogs. 



When the tide turned. Hall's 



party had hard work at the 



oars, but at midnight of the 



10th they made their first 



landing on the ice of Repulse Bay. A stream of heavy ice threatened 



to crush the boat, but by great exertions it was hauled up on the floe, 



which almost immediately broke up. 



After repeated like severe experiences, 



the twenty-first encampment was made 



on the shores of the bay at midnight 



of the 13th, in lat. 66"" 15' N., long. 85° 16' W. Hall thought there 



was a history in this one day. But this bay, from which he was at 



some future time to set out for King William's Land, had now been 



reached. Disheartening it was that the season of that year was too far 



advanced for sledging, and that for the rest of the month he was to 



make here his home. 



On the 19th he crossed Hurd's channel from a landing on the 

 island near Cape Frigid. Ou-e-la spoke of a party of Iwillik Innuits, 

 including ^r-^oo-a, SJwo-she-ark-nook, ?ind See-gar (Ou-e-la'' s iather), who, 

 while out walrusing in these waters, were carried off on a broken floe 

 and landed on Sedla. By watching the first opportunity they got 

 upon another floe, on which they were carried by the tide to Iwillik 

 arriving there in a perishing condition, after eating all their dogs and 

 suffering from extreme cold 



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