242 An-1coo-ting. [April, isee. 



tlie sick child, and the Iiinuits themselves said that it was their habit 

 to make short da}-s' journeys at the firet, extend them from time to 

 time, and make great distances toward the last. For a gain on the 

 morrow, as soon as Nu-l;er-zhoo had spent his half-hour on his igloo, he 

 was sent off five miles up the lake, with a full team, to deposit a sledge 

 load in advance. At fj.30 p. m., a beautiful parhelion appeared 22°. 5 

 north side of the sun ; it showed prismatic colors : At 7^- 5""- the sun 

 was disappearing behind the hills on the west side of the lake. Before 

 the day closed. Hall noted that a rivulet of an eighth of a mile con- 

 nects the lake with North Pole River, and, uniting two large sheets of 

 water, forms an attractive spot for the deer. Its name is Koon-woo 

 (the deer-pass). 



At this thirtv-second encampment,* to his grievous disappoint- 

 ment, he was detained until the 11th of the month by the continued 

 illness of Too-koo-li-too's child. Concentrated medicine adminis- 

 tered for pneumonia did not effect an improvement satisfactory to the 

 mother ; and her Innuit friends very readily took occasion to recom- 

 mend and to i)ractice different forms of their own healing art by an- 

 loo-tu/g. Three somewhat different trials of the art were made. On 

 the 4th, the an-ge-ko put a leather strap around Ebierbing's head while 

 lying on the bed, and when he occasionally pulled on this strap, the head 

 came up, or it remained firmly down though the lifts were hard ; the 

 raising of the liead or its remaining steady indicated the different replies 

 to tlie questions asked as to the future of the babe. On the 7th, the 

 Ijabe's health not having improved, Nu-ker-zhoo, as " a newly-fledged 

 an-gc-ko,'^ entered on his work by putting the strap around the head of 

 one of the women, and while propounding many questions to the Spirit, 



"Tor tli<- route nuw (raveled, see map for Chapter XIII: the more successful journey uur- 

 ratc-d ill tliat <liapt<r hciiig on tlic same route as far as Cape Weynton. 



