CHAPTER VIII. 



Start fok King William's Lani> March :U— Hall's companions— His kxposurk — Walks be- 

 hind THE sledges — Gale-bound — Innuit legends of the wolf and the bear — An- 



KOO-TING FOR TOO-KOO-LI-TOO'S SICK INFANT — UNCERTAINTY OF THE (a;iDES — Dr. Kae'S 



chart followed — Letters sent back to the whalers — Tardiness of the natives — 

 Eenewed an-koo-ting for the child — Fi;rther delays — Icing of the sleds re- 

 newed — The Sea of Ak-koo-lee reached on the twenty-eighth day of a .tourney, 



once made BY' EaE IN FIVE DAYS — MEETING WITH NATIVES FROM PeLLY BaY — THEIR AC- 

 COUNTS OF Franklin's ships— Eelics obtained from them— Intimidation of Hall's 



MEN BY THESE NATIVES — HaLL COMPELLED TO RETURN FROM COLVILE BaY — LEAVES A 



DEPOSIT AT Cape Weynton for his next journey — Buries Too-koo-li-too's child, 

 "Little King William''— Arrives at Beacon Hill May -2'A — The Innuits agree to go 



BACK the next YEAR. 



The first page of the Note-Book for the last day of Marcli, 1866, 

 has on its face, in bold writing, ^^ Now for King WiUiam^s Land! Up at 

 4 a. m. and getting ready for a starts 



The wind was fresh from the north-northwest, and the temjiera- 

 ture '' 50 degrees below frost-point," yet Hall decided to make his first 

 advance of five miles as far as Ou-e-Ms resting-place on North 

 Pole Lake, and from that point to send forward two sledge-loads of 

 stores, after which, before setting ont finally on his journey, he would 

 make a safe deposit of his records at the base of Beacon Hill on its 

 northeast side. Ebierbing, Ar-mou, Nii-Jier-zhoo, young She-nul--shoo 

 and his mother, with Too-koo-li-too and the families of Ar-mou and 



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