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old chief emptied out on tli<^ sled aimndxT from lier full mittens; ITall 

 had instrneted all the Inmiits to bring- to him all eui'ions-looking 

 things whenever they saw them. 



Little provision remained on hand. He gave out his unpalatable 

 damaged Marshall sausage-meat for breakfast, and, a\ hile he ate of the 

 same food, he was glad to find that his plan succeeded, for a couple of the 

 unwiUing Innuits now promptly started off for iool-ioo. He gives a racy 

 account of the taking of some six-ics (marmots), Ebierbing, while 

 the Pelly Bay Innuits intensely watched him, three times in succession 

 missed the little animal, though using Hall's best rifle. The creature 

 sat by his hole without fright all the time, except at the first shot 

 when it went into his hole, but was quickly out again. At another 

 hunt, Nu-lcer-zlioo, Ebierbing, and ^r-wwi( were all out with rifles; but, 

 after their firing three shots, six-y darted into his hole and was in- 

 stantly out again ; one minute later, another shot, and six-y was again 

 out, as if saying ''Kill me, if you can." The Pelly Bay natives laughed 

 at the weapons used; for with a simple string having a slip-noose — 

 sometimes made of the end of a whip-lash — they readily caught a 

 number of these little animals, one of which made a good meal for 

 a man. See-xmng-er, one of the Pelly Bay men, came in at midday on 

 the 0th, and, sticking his thumb and fingers straight out, showed 

 his answer to the question how many he had killed and the bites 

 he had received. The wife of KoJi-Iee-amy-nim also showed three 

 six-ies slung on her back; she had caught them by a "slijj-a- 

 noose" at their holes. But the stock of provisions was still short; 

 the company at times could take but one meal a day, with the 

 addition of a small bit of whale-beef, the dog-food. A crow which 

 had come very close to the traveling party escaped l)oth the dogs and 



