2(i0 The Pelly Bay Natives Unfriendly. r April, iseo. 



havino- been seen on the north or west of Ki-ki-tung, they pointed 

 ao-ain on Rae's chart to Cape Victoria, and said that, a few years before, 

 many Innuits had seen a ship near there from which kob-lu-nas and 

 sledsres had come down from the south. 



This information was again interesting, but its communication was 

 soon followed by some acts of the new-comers themselves toward 

 Hall's people, which not only decided but hastened his setting out 

 on the return for Repulse Bay. They seemed to have easily intimi- 

 dated Ebierbing, Nu-ker-zhoo, and others; getting from them some of 

 their best dogs, weapons, and tools, and, a day or two after, inviting 

 them to plays — boxing, wrestling, and knife-testing — an invitation from 

 which Hall dissuaded them at the advice of Too-koo-li-too, who said 

 there was danger of fighting and murder. She had been made 

 aware of their custom of introducing a short, sharp-pointed bone inside 

 of their mittens, so that, when boxing with these, they may strike a 

 Repulse Bay native, if possible, on the side of the head near the 

 eye : — a deathblow struck in play. They then proceeded to carry out a 

 grand an-koot-ing, in the course of which their an-ge-ko gave a reply 

 from the Spirit that Too-koo-li-too's sick babe should be given to 

 them : a ruse, as Hall notes, to obtain further gifts. He came un- 

 willingly to the conclusion that his own party lacked the nerve needed 

 for any risk which might occur in going forward, although Nu-ker-zhoo 

 liad for himself protested that he was not afraid. With a sad heart, 

 "disappointed but not discoui*aged," he prepared for his return; yet 

 making the resolve that he would endeavor, in the following year, to 

 organize a party of four or five white men, with whom, together with 

 Ar-mou, Nu-ker-zhoo, and Ebierbing, he would again come over this 

 route and ivach King William's Land. For that journey he would 



