march, 1866.] Control of fJic Innuits. 22 f) 



rule, dealt out as rations in exchange for provisions. AVhen for two 

 days he held out in a refusal to ser\t' out this to Ar-mou (the Wolf), a 

 personal contest was nearly brought on. " Tlie savage," after several 

 angry conferences Avith his fellows, again and again demanded the 

 coveted weed; but even when he approached Hall to lay hold on Iiim, 

 he received the firm answer, '■'■Ar-mou keeps his muk-tuk, Hall keeps 

 his tobacco." This self-control seems to have had as much to do with 

 closing the affair amicably, as any assistance that Ebierbing and Too- 

 koo-li-too could render. 



Other alienations had now shown tliemselves by the separa- 

 tion from him of the rest of the Innuits, and by their withhold- 

 ing from him their old gifts and even some of liis own supplies, 

 which might have been brought when he was known to be in need, 

 from the whale cached in August ; to say nothing of their forgetful- 

 ness to keep for him his accustomed place at the feasts. It is cer- 

 tainly creditable to Hall that he could exercise such self-control, and 

 make full allowance for the circumstances in which he was placed, and 

 in which he steadfastly purposed to abide. Some things he knew tliat 

 he must probably misunderstand. His own determined purpose he 

 could not. In despite of these adverse circumstances, lie had not been 

 without renewed encouragements. The leading men of the tribe had 

 come and talked with him about his journey before he went over to 

 Now-yarn, and when good humor prevailed there, had repeatedly 

 entered into his plans, and committed themselves and their people to 

 his assistance. Ar-mou completed for him a chart of the waters 

 and lands he had voyaged and traveled over in his lifetime. "It 

 embraced a section of country from Pond's Bay (say in lat. 73° N., 

 long. 76° W.) to Fort Churchill (lat. 58° 44' N., long. 94° 14' W.) ; 

 the distance between the two places in a direct line being 1IG6 nauti- 

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