248 An-hoo-tmg for the Babe Benetved. [April, iseo. 



bv the recent fiill of snow. At times, the teams were doubled up to 

 ascend the hill, the change requiring but half a minute. When one 

 of the drivers was found nearly exhausted by his peculiar Innuit 

 uro-ino' of his dogrs, Hall drove his team and o^xve him a small swig- of 

 Bourbon ; and by extending the gift later in the day to the other men, 

 gained their willing travel of an additional hour. While passing over 

 one of the lakes, She-nuh-slioo picked up a mass of reindeer-hair with a 

 piece of the skin having fresh blood on it — a mark of the work of 

 some of the very numerous wolves, whose tracks were all along the 

 route. The thirty-fourth encampment was made at 4.47 p. m., the 

 wind blowing a gale and the snow flying thickly. While the}^ were 

 building igloos, Hall himself succeeded in chiseling in thirty-five min- 

 utes through ice 6 feet thick, and in one hour slaked his great thirst 

 with " four quarts of glorious water." On their way they had passed 

 the grave of the unfortunate Ar-too-a, who, as has been before noted, 

 had been drowned in the lake the preceding summer. The course 

 during the day had been north 53° east, and the rate of travel had 

 averaged two and a half miles an hour. Where they halted, a great 

 number of Innuit stone-marks were found, set up to direct the bands 

 of migrating deer across a narrow channel of the lake passed over. 

 At night another furious wolf-attack was repelled. 



A new and tedious delay began on the 15th. The mother of the 

 sick child, alarmed by its much-changed looks, again summoned her 

 I'riends, and Nii-l^er-zlioo renewed his an-koo-ting, beginning this time 

 by a solenm march with Ebierbing's double-barreled gun in hand, 

 and uttering for some fifteen minutes along the passage-way the most 

 v<.cif('rous cries. Within the ^gloo, on the full renewal of the stone- 

 lilting feat, the replies of the Spirit through the an-ge-lco to the dis- 



