February, 1866. 



Visit to Fort Hope. 



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THE KENT CLIFF. 



On setting- out in the morning, all Now-yarn had turned out to bid him 

 " ter-hou-ee-tie'^ — a hearty good-bye. He left the kindly advice with 

 Ou-e- la to be sure to send for him if any of the people were sick. 



With his own Eskimos, and Jr- 

 mou and Mam-mark, he made the jour- 

 ney by four o'clock in the afternoon, 

 the sledges being heavily loaded, and 

 he himself preferring to pace the whole 

 distance, carefully counting every 

 fourth step. As soon after their ar- 

 rival as new igloos were built, refresh- 

 ments were served up, including a lit- 

 tle brandy of such proof that it 

 remained unfrozen at 50^ below zero. The fair sex of the company 

 eschewed the favorite muk-tuk, the brandy, and the smoking. Mam- 

 mark having recently lost her wing-er (husband), and Too-koo-li-too's 

 child being less than a year old. When Hall took his brandy, even 

 after breathing for some time upon the flask, he was burned from 

 mouth to stomach as by a stream of fire-coals ; — impressing him ever 

 after with the necessity of being as wise in first taking the frost out 

 of the liquid as he was in taking it out of the nose of the flask. 



The next day, having occasion to visit Fort Hope, he was struck 

 with its exposed position, and his notes express an admiration of Dr. 

 Rae's ability as the leader of an expedition, for having wintered liis 

 party of 1846 within its gloomy mud and stone walls without the 

 loss of a man. Mam-mark and others now spoke of their friends hav- 

 ing seen Dr. Rae at Pelly Bay, as well as at Fort Hope. They knew 

 Oo-lig-huck, Rae's guide, under the name Mar-ko, and among other 



