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for food, as besides their sled-loads several abundant deposits were 

 still near them, and a band of eleven deer made their appearance on 

 the river-bank. The time for sealing also was at hand. Hall's own 

 abstinence and anxieties had made him more than usually susceptible 

 to cold, so that he was not surprised to find his face frequently frost- 

 bitten on this journey of less than three miles. Tuk-too, Ar-mou^s 

 wife No, 2, drew the frost out by applying the warmth of her hand 

 as often as the bite showed itself Woman-like, she had fallen in the 

 rear of the party, to help him if he should be in need. 



Through the next day and the two which followed, all were com- 

 pletely storm-bound within the igloos, and both the wife of Ou-e-la and 

 Too-koo-li-too's babe, "Little King William," became, as they thought, 

 dangerously ill. Hall treated each case with a dose of phodophyllin 

 and asclepin; and Ou-e-la, who had been fearing now a second time 

 the loss of the companion and guide of his travels, was again happy. 



While snow-bound. Hall learned from him, among other facts 

 belonging to Arctic animal life, that April is the moon for the birth of 

 the young seal ; May for that of the ook-gook and the musk-ox ; June 

 for the deer and the walrus, and July for the eider-duck. He found 

 also that the Innuits make no attempt to domesticate such animals as 

 the wolf or the deer, from the belief that to do so would bring death 

 to the tribe.* He had a curious account of the hardening process 

 applied to the Kin-na-pa-too dogs, who eat ver}^ little, and yet keep in 

 good order and do much service. This is said to be in consequence of 



• As exceptions to this in individual cases, the two following stories are found in Hall's 

 notes : 



THE TAMED WOLF. 



The mother of Nu-ker-zhoo once captured a very young wolf, of which she took the greatest 

 care, feeding it with the choicest food she could secure, and sharing with it her bed. She hoped 

 it would become a large and powerful animal, and yet remain tractable and more serviceable 



