178 Game Flentifid. iju«c, ises. 



AVliilo Hall was on Southampton Island lie took many observa- 

 tions for the determination of the coast line ; he returned ^vith his 

 party to his twenty-first encampment at 8 p. ni. of the 22d. The hitter 

 l)art of the month gave him the opportunity of writing up the journals 

 which he designed to send to the United States by the first whalers 

 tliat shoukl appear in the bay. He took his share in the frequent 

 hunts opened up by the season. 



Game had steadily increased from the beginning of the month. 

 On their sail from the Wager it had been constantly in sight, giving 

 them a number of deer, fourteen partridges, and an ooJc-gooJc shot from 

 Oi(-e-Ia\s boat; in the middle of the month, when Ar-too-a, See-gar^ and 

 Ar-goo-moo-too-Uk, with their three sledges, joined the saihng party on 

 the floe, they reported eleven deer killed on their route; and during 

 the last two weeks of the month, the whole party were in the liigliest 

 spu'its from the very large number of deer, seals, and rabbits that were 

 taken. The young deer were found to have their new horns quite 

 large. The rabbits had now already heralded the approach of sum- 

 mer by changing their white fur for coats of a light brown or slaty 

 liue. As early as the 16th, the first flowers, (the purple saxifrages,) 

 had been seen growing abundantly in patches on the plains. 



Ou-e-la's hunting was again successful by his great skill in entic- 

 ing and securing his prizes. Approaching the deer, he worked himself 

 along so steakhily from rock to rock as to escape the animal's closest 

 watcli, and, akhough the crows were noisily afii'ighting the herd, he 

 quickly killed several. Skinning one in seven minutes, he left the 

 meat for one of his wives to bring in ; and approaching a fawn, he art- 

 fully uttered sounds so successfully imitating its doe, that it ran toward 

 him, ^nviiig Hall the <>i)portunity of shooting it and of receiving con- 



