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the 14tb, a thick log-, the first of the kind that 1 remember has occurred this 

 season, commenced rising over the open water southward, and by 11 a. m. it was 

 driven here by a southeast wind, enveloping tlie ishmd in it. The succeeding 

 monnng, the fog was again over the oi)en Avater and over tlie ice of TJei)u]se r>ay, 

 the wind still southeast and south-southeast. From the morning of the 13th tlie 

 barometer began to fall, standing then 30 ^^^ inches; it gradually continued fall- 

 ing to Saturday morning, the 16th, from which time to evening it dropped down 

 three-tenths of an inch. In connection with all this, I may mention what some 

 might consider a trifle ; nevertheless it shall have a place here. A small i)ool or 

 reservoir of fresh water is close by the tupih, mostly on solid rock, but one side of 

 it consists of moss and grass growing over cobblestones. Now, this pool rises 

 and falls quite as regularly as the tide, though only about one-lialf as often. 

 During the night the water of this reservoir falls, and fi'om morning to evening- 

 it rises. The rise and fall seems to be quite uniform in height one day after 

 another. Last night this water was nearly exhausted. Indeed, when I saw it 

 just before the thunder-storm I was greatly surprised to find it so. This with 

 other indications told unmistakably that something unusual was about to transpire 

 in nature's elements. At 2.30 a. m. the tirst thunder-clap that I have ever heard 

 in the northern regions occurred, the same being preceded by sharp liglitning. 

 A little while after, loud thunder pealed forth here, there, everywhere around 

 Eepulse Bay, especially away in the direction of Gibson's Cove, the extreme 

 northwestern part of Eepulse Bay, where were such piles of heavy black clouds — 

 Heaven's electric battery — and such a continuous roar of thunder therefrom that 

 I could not help thinking of the Almighty hand which holds the elements. 



The storm ended at 4.20 a. m. 



Ar-mou told Hall he had seen ou-mer, (lightning,) twice at Ig- 

 loo-lik. His people never knew it to kill an Innuit. To-koo-li-too 

 said in her country it struck red dogs ; so they always killed such when 

 puppies. 



The old woman E-vit-shung gave a specimen of her treatment 

 of her own dogs, which was amusing though severe. She found 

 them one day asleep when tied up to the rocks, as was often neces- 

 sary to prevent their cutting with their teeth into the oil-drugs and 

 meat ; a valuable drug had just been almost entirely ruined. This, 



