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The Ki-as of Bcpuisc Bai/. 



[Febrnary, 1866. 



proved nglv, and in the encounter kicked up his heels, striking the 

 boat, which was at once upset. 



Hall notes the difference between the ki-as of this country and 

 those of Greenland, Frobisher Bay, and Hudson's Strait: 



Till- ki-a.s here are of far less weight than those of (Ireeiiland — not so long 

 or so wide. Indeed, they are not more than 25 ponnds weight, while those on the 

 west side of Davis's Strait ofttimes exceed 100 ponnds. A Greeulander, or any 

 Innnit anywhere from Hndson's Strait np to aSTorthmnberland Inlet, on getting 

 into one of the li-as of this conntry wonld capsize as <]uickly as a white man 

 in theirs. Ebierbing at first could do nothing in them bnt roll over. Ma an<l 

 all. To get properly into one of these boats, an Innuit has to work and wiggle 

 his body a long time. I cannot imagine how Ar-too-a managed, on getting cap- 

 sized, to get his body ont of his li-a, so tight was he squeezed in Avhen in it. 



l;i;i'LLSK liAV KI-A. 



Klsewhere, he notes his surprise on learning that the natives com- 

 plained that he had kept Ar-mou with him. They bitterly felt the loss 

 of tlieir an-gc-Jio, and said that if Ar-mou had gone 

 U}) with Ar-too-a to the lake he might have been 

 at liand to save him. Old Ook-har-Ioo, mother-like, 

 held on to a hope that she would yet look upon 

 her son. 



The midwinter months, to the 8th of Feb- 

 ruary, were passed comfortably with the natives 

 at or near Now-yarn. The stock of provisions 

 was ample, and limiting- unnecessary as well as impracticable; the 

 time was, therefore, spent mostly within the if/loos, in the usual 

 aniiisciiicnts and feasting the character of which has already been 

 dcsniltcd. The nninbcr of souls in tho village, including women and 



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