204 Feeding the Dogs. [Aprii, jsee. 



Bav. Hall ^yas here forced to remember that Dr. Rae in 1854 had made 

 the same journey from Fort Hope in five days, his party dragging* 

 their own provisions without even the aid of a dog. It had now cost 

 himself twenty-eight days with the help of his teams. All the Innuits 

 believed, however, that liae must have found the ice on the sea of 

 Ak-koo-lee much smoother, or it would have been impossible for him to 

 travel so far out from the coast-line. 



The dogs not having been fed for five days, a 40-pound piece of 

 whale-beef was now cut up and buttered for them with ooh-gook blub- 

 ber and seal-oil. They were then put in one by one into an abandoned 

 igloo, while Mammark stood inside, club in hand, to beat off all but the 

 one to be fed, and to pound him out when Hall had fed him. A short 

 time before, Ar-mou had nearly killed one of his best dogs by throw- 

 ing a hatchet at him for stealing, and to recover this hatchet which 

 had been left behind, and a w^ood-button used by the an-ge-ko, had 

 cost Hall some of the provoking delays of the jom-ney. 



On the 28th no advance was made. The march would have been 

 resumed northward and westward despite of a severe gale, but Too- 

 koo-li-too was entirely broken down by the continued watching of her 

 child. After a serious talk with both parents, they once more per- 

 mitted it to take medicine while in an epileptic fit — "two drops of 

 A-iratum \ iride and one-half grain of asclepin." The day following, 

 the wind being fresh from north-northwest and the temperature 40° 

 l)elow freezing-point, three miles per hour (two and a half on direct 

 course) were made within the hours from 9.40 a. m. to 6.20 p. m., two 

 stoppages being needed to disentangle the dog-lines. Two small 

 streams were ])assed, which emptied into the sea of Ak-koo-lee. 11ie 

 travel was mostly on tlie coast-line ice, the coast itself and the hilly 



