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HaJJ and Ehierhing again Successful. 



I October, 1863. 



Storm, and the cold, frowninf^-, icy rocks, although sheltering them 

 for tlie moment, were enough. Hall said, to make one exclaim, " None 

 hut devils should be doomed to such an unmerciful punishment." On 

 returning to their third deer, they found that the foxes had dragged off 

 the head and nearly cleaned off the meat. The paunches of all three 

 were then buried within a skin in a snow-drift ; to be recovered when 

 the gale ceased The first animal which they had killed and sledded 

 u])on a skin some distance further on, was also cached with hard labor. 

 The whole da^-'s work had been in the teeth of gale and drift. 



Entering the hut, on their return, each seemed to the other a pil- 

 lar of snow^, until th6y had for a long 

 hour pounded and threshed their na- 

 tive dresses with their ar-roiv-tars. 

 But they brought in with them a 

 good store of food, for Ebierbing had 

 carried on his back, two legs and five 

 slabs of meat, beside much tallow, 

 with e-ver-tu (sinew) for thread. Hall 

 had on his shoulders, with his gun, 

 a substantial saddle of meat. Their 

 stores left outside had been also made 

 ''safe in the midst of the storm from 

 the jaws of the fox, the wolf, and the 

 equally hungry crow." 



The gale continued unbroken 

 for five successive days. Hall notes 

 iliis as luiexampled in his experience as regards its constancy, 

 force, and direction, of wliich he niadc^ entries in his meteorological 



