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Now-yarn Harbor and the Cliff. 



[Fc'bruary, 1866. 



shod with the same bone; the cross-bars measured 20 inches. Ou-e-la 

 said that it belonged to the father of the I-vit-chuck already named. 

 Hall now spent several days in the busy work of surveying Now- 

 varn harbor and its vicinity, making the sketch of which the cut 

 below is a fac-simile. 



I^akclet 



A cliff on the border of a neighboring inlet much interested him 

 b} the Innuit tradition with which it was connected. Ou-e-la^s story 

 was that, years before, two little girls while playing about this cliff, 

 with infants in hoods on their backs, had gone into an opening between 

 the rocks, which closed upon them before escape was possible. All 

 attempts for rescue were unsuccessful, and the poor children, to whom 

 f(^r a time bread and water were passed, perished in the cliff. 



On the 8th, Hall found himself back at his tenting-ground at the 

 twenty-sixth encampment, near Dr. Rae's "Forlorn Hope" — Fort Hope. 



