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Discouraging News. 



lApril, t§66. 



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presence of his tAvo steadfast friends as interpreters, and of other 



Inniiits, and tlie news was commnnicated with apparent truthfulness. 



Ho savs of tlie chief tliat he seemed an honest old fellow, delighted 



with his new koh-lu-na friend, and frequently and cordially 



callina' out to him, ^^3Ian-nin-too-))ie.^'* The Franklin relics 



obtained from him included a mahogany barometer-case, 



P spoons, forks, and a number of other small articles.f 



But other news received from these strangers was any- 

 thing but gratifying. It 

 effectually barred further 

 progress to King Will- 

 liam's Land for the year 

 1866. The first words to 

 Nu-ker-^hoo, MammarJi, and 

 A7'-mou told the loss of 

 their friends and relatives 

 some years before by starv- 

 ation, murder, and canni- 

 balism. This was followed 

 by such accounts of the 

 KK. dangers awaiting them if 

 they went on to Pelly Bay and Ook-goo-lik, as to throw a damper on the 

 u h<ih' part}- except Hall himself. The old chief said that a very old and 

 iiilinn man on removing to Ook-goo-lik had been immediately mur- 

 dered witli Ills whole family: that very recently there had been fights 

 aiiiniio tlie Xeit-tce-lik Innuits for a woman, and one of them had been 



•Tin- iii<aiiiiiji<il'iliis word i^s not ^venhy Hall; iioristhatof Ma-my-too-mig-tey-ina(p.256.) 

 t AftiTwanl donated by Hall t(» iIih Siuithsoiiiaii Institution, and in 1870 placed for the 

 IniK-d Stat«-M Naval Oliwrvatory in their Aretic exhiliit in the Government Ituildiiifj at the Cen- 

 tennial Kxliiliition, Philadelphia. 





FltANKI.lX Hr.I.les WITH HALL S PEXHOLDEl 



