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gratulations on his return to the tupiJiS. With the assistance of Ebier- 

 bing-'s Hke tact, Hall wounded a deer, whicli he endeavored to drive or 

 lead in toward his tent; but when the strap of the marine glass was 

 fastened around its head, the untamed animal reared, kicked, danced, 

 butted, and cut such wild capers that, witliin a quarter of a mile of 

 home, they were compelled to knock it on the head. Ebierbing, on a 

 visit with some others to Oog-la-ri-your Island, caught twenty-six seals 

 on the same day. Ou-e-la brought in, besides three deer, several pin- 

 tail ducks, with their eggs which were of a greenish cast, but smaller 

 than those of the eider; — of the size of hen-eggs only. 



On the afternoon of the 26th, from the top of a little hill, Hall 

 observed a remarkable instance of refraction. The mountains of 

 Southampton Island, which are of no great height and their slopes 

 gentle, appeared to be very high and precipitous ; an irregular chain 

 was converted into a huge plateau. A descent of even 5 feet from his 

 position made the mountains appear nearly natural; one of 10 feet 

 entirely so. 



In his excursions he met with two specimens only of iron ore 

 resting on primitive rock. 



On the 1st day of July he moved a short distance to the Island 

 of Oog-la-ri-your, where the larger number of his Innuit friends had 

 already encamped for more conveniently hunting the seal. On remov- 

 ing their tupihs, the blubber which had been saved was stored away in 

 seal-skin ''drugs^^^ and deposited in a cache for winter use. When 

 making these bags they took off the skin from the animal unbroken 

 except by a small opening about the head, and when this cut was made, 

 a knife was thrust in longitudinally and used freely until the blubber 

 was completely separated from the skin; the fore flipper was jointed. 



