188 A Wo))uui An ge-ho Questioning ^"Sidney.'''' lAuguM, ises. 



Ill tlie interval of a clear sky on their journey, two vessels bad 

 been again sigbted at a distance to tbe southward; but indistinctly 

 throuii'h the mist. Not even their masts would have been above the 

 horizon, if refraction had not brought them up and their duplicates 

 also; each vessel, from the water-line about it to the truck being 

 matched bv its complete image inverted, hulk to hulk, and all sus- 

 pended in the clouds above the sea horizon. The day following, the 

 two ships, the Black Eagle and the Ansel Gibbs, again appeared, 

 beating up Repulse Bay. They anchored near an island to the south- 

 west. Ebierbing and Ou-e-la had volunteered at a late hour of the 

 night previous to go out to these ships in the offing. The wind fresh- 

 ening to a gale, Ou-e-la, more cautious than Ebierbing, soon returned; 

 but the latter, after causing Hall much anxiety for many hours, still 

 remained out of sight. As he had with him in the Sylvia Nu-l'cv- 

 zlioo, Oung-oo-choo, and Tuk-too, their old mother, E-vit-shmuj who felt 

 that all her earthly treasures were in danger, invested herself with the 

 nlHce of an an-ge-ho ; and after having by the dawn of day satisfied 

 herself by tlie answers of " Sidney," that although the Sylvia could 

 not reach tlie sliijis, it would come back safe, she had relieved the 

 minds of the other Innuits. In her communing with the spirit, she 

 had Ijeen throwing her left hand continually around, giving a twisting 

 motion to tlie thong which she had tied to a heavy stone, and 

 " Sidney's" answers had come to her by his increasing or diminishing 

 tin- wciglit of this stone. AYhen the party returned, they reported that 

 tlicy had iiindc a landing until th(^ storm subsided, and having their 

 lirc-arnis with thciii had made a successful fooJc-foo hunt. 



i><tMic their ai-|-ival several Ijoats' crews ])ut off from the ships to 

 vi.^it lialh tor whom they had been looking when passing Oo-gla-ri- 



