244 Too-koo-li-too Obeys the An-ge-ko. lAprii, isee. 



parents went forward with it to the Neitchille country, one of the three 

 wouhl die. 



So strong had been tlie persuasions of the women of the party, 

 and so fully under the power of their people's law were even Ebier- 

 hing and Too-koo-li-too (although they had lived with Hall both 

 in their own country and in the United States), that during this 

 temporary lailure of the power of his medicines, these parents gave 

 themselves fully up to this superstition. His notes show how sin- 

 cerely grieved he was at the risk to which this giving up of medicine 

 was subjecting the child ; how tiied in spirit he was at their degrading 

 subjection, and yet how helpless he was to afford relief. Too-koo- 

 li-too, when almost persuaded to let the child again have relief, 

 pleaded that she and her husband would be cursed by the Innuits; 

 and told Hall plainly that if the an-ge-Jco were not obeyed they would 

 all desert him. The whole of this matter was still the more trying, 

 because, although there were some singular phenomena for which Hall 

 says he could no more account than for like things in the spirit-rap- 

 pings in his own country, the actions of the an-ge-ko could generally 

 as plainly be seen through as was his object; for on closely watching 

 him, as in the process of the stone-lifting. Hall saw well enough that 

 wlien the weight was about to be lifted with great difficulty Nu-ker-zlioo 

 prejjared himself beforehand for a strong pull, and as plainly did the 

 opposite when it suited his purpose. " What was all this lifting for? 

 ']'«) gratif}' the devil, who has been doing his evil work through the dark 

 Ijenighted minds of this truly savage people." Hall told Too-koo- 

 li-too ;iii(l ICIjierljing that they must not mind the information pretended 

 tn be got out of a stone, and confidentially sliowed them the deception 

 that Xn-kcr-zho(j had practiced in lifting it and in the former lifts of the 



