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land running" parallel with it being a plain lowland of from half a 

 a mile to one mile in width. Cape Weynton was soon on their lar- 

 board beam, bearing due west, and distant half a mile. The cape is 

 not more than 50 feet in height. 



A new era in the history of this sledge journey now opened. As- 

 cending a berg 30 feet above the level of a floe to prospect the best 

 route across Colvile Bay, Hall, with Ar-mou and She-nuk-sJioo, caught 

 sight of four strange Innuits who appeared to be sealing some three 

 miles to the northeast. The sight occasioned some excitement, for, 

 while there was every reason to establish friendly intercourse with 

 these men, in order to obtain further information bearing upon the 

 main objects of his expedition. Hall had his apprehension that if these 

 should prove to be See-neem-e-utes, he would need to be cautious in 

 every movement. He quickly unloaded one sledge and sent it back, 

 with all the dogs, to hasten up the rest of his party ; they arrived at 2 

 p. m. But Nu-ker-zlioo, watching with a spy-glass the movements of 

 these strange Innuits, felt sure that he recognized old friends. Hall's 

 party going forward, therefore, arrived at 9.50 p. m. (sunset), at the 

 snow village of the strangers, and made their fortieth encampment 

 alongside of them on the ice of the sea, three miles from the coast and 

 near Cape Beaufort. The next morning, no sooner was Hall's igloo 

 unsealed than it was filled with new faces. 



Kok-lee-arng-nun, their head man, showed two spoons which had been 

 given to liim by Ag-loo-ka (Crozier), one of them having the initials F. 

 R. M. C. stamped upon it. His wife, Koo-narng, had a silver watch-case. 

 This opened up the way for immediate inquiries. Through Too-koo-li- 

 too who as usual soon proved a good intrepreter, it was learned that 

 these Innuits had been at one time on board of the ships of Too-loo-ark, 



