2()4 An Aurora Noted from a Hard Bed. [September, ises. 



opportunity for observing some of Nature's grand order of creation than I to-night, 

 here on my back, with the heavens stretched out and moving, panorama-like, be- 

 fore me ? O, the wondrous workings of the aurora I Their mysteries seem i>ast 

 finding out. The more I see them, the less I know. The display to-night most 

 gorgeous. At first, the low extended arch to the southward — its slow rising — 

 tin- dancing beams flying to and fro from one end of the arch to the other — the 

 arch multiplied into others in beautiful disorder — the prismatic fringe at the base 

 of the rays. As the now several arches get higher and higher they become more 

 and more lively. Now they shoot up to the zenith, and their motions become too 

 quick for the eye to follow them. Now the ujiper heavens are filled with the 

 aurora as though in battle ; sublime and inspiring. I cannot describe the scene ; 

 I can simply behold, and praise God, the author of these glorious works. 



During the month of September ninety-thi-ee deer were deposited, 

 and within the next month and the first week of November fifty more 

 were secured ; in the latter part of September they were frequently 

 seen in large numbers, and Hall estimated that as many as a thousand 

 passed in one day. The Innuits at the lakes, who were not equally 

 fortunate, said that the prevalence of the southerly winds had kept the 

 deer lower down, near the seashore. A few were seen by Hall as late 

 as the 27th of January ; these were, at the time, going northward. 

 They did not again appear until the end of March, when the does that 

 were ^^•ith young had begun their migration. Their rutting season 

 had been in October, during which, frequently, they were more readily 

 ca])tured. 



Tlie details of labor and exposure to which Hall subjected himself 

 wlien depositing the carcasses of his slain animals are as interesting as 

 those of the hunt. One record will suffice. It is largely condensed 

 from his notes, throughout the fullness of which no items are found 

 which AVMuld tempt one to suspect that the account is one of exagger- 

 ated trials. 'Hicy boar on their face the simplicity of that truthfulness 

 wliicli if iii;iy 1)(. June said, once for all, has been conceded on all sides 



