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Innuits. Eighteen days had now passed without making an advance 

 of more than thirty-two miles to his present position, lat, 67° 4' N. ; 

 but such delays as had been necessary on the score of humanity were 

 not regretted. During this day, Ebierbing, who had seen Hall's tooth- 

 pullers and heard him describe lancing the gums, drew out one of his 

 own three-pronged molars, bleeding himself profusely by his four trials. 

 On Hall's looking over his instruments, and taking out with them a 

 couple of combination knife-fork-and-spoon articles. Mam-mark who 

 saw them, told him that she had seen among the Innuits at Pelly Bay 

 many forks, all of the same silver-like look, as well as many watches 

 and chains. 



The day following, all the men, women, and children were break- 

 fasted on bread and coffee; they once more made a start, the travel 

 averaging two miles per hour, and by four o'clock, with difficulty, 

 arrived at a place within two miles of the sea. While going down the 

 hill to Salt Lake, the descent being at an angle of about 4.5°, and the 

 loads heavy, all the dogs were detached and the sledges let go on their 

 own hook. A little further on, Hall's sledge fell behind, the runners 

 dragging heavily. In order to renew the shoeing, his driver and him- 

 self filled their mouths with snow-water, which would again freeze 

 while they were putting it on ; but She-nuk-shoo grunting out that he 

 would lose his mouthful if even he cried out to the dogs to stop, they 

 capsized the sledge to stop them. Five minutes later they were gliding 

 over the snow as if over glass. A different kind of grunting, took-too- 

 like, made by Nu-ker-zhoo, kept a band of deer following the sledge so 

 closely for more than two miles that their eyes were plainly seen when 

 they stopped to stare. He kept up with Hall, yet took time to make 

 several shots, and killed a fine buck. 



