264 Fossils in the Clay and Sand-Hills. [May, isee. 



rifle-shots. An owl had the same happy deliverance, but a few part- 

 ridges were secured. At night in the kom-motig — pemmican-soup, with 

 Borden biscuit, refreshed all except Too-koo-li-too, who, on account of 

 lier sick child, was allowed by her superstitious friends to eat bread 

 only. 



On the two days that followed, success in the deer-hunt re-sup- 

 plied the company with fresh meat, and the dogs received something, 

 although but little and that of "not much more account than sawdust- 

 pudding"; the supply for seventeen animals being only two deer- 

 paunches. But they had stolen seal-blubber and whale-meat from the 

 sledges while they were loading up, in spite of unmerciful poundings 

 with big sticks and clubs. 



On the 11th, when the party came near Rae's ''Point Hargrave," 

 Hall left the sledges, and ascending the point, found its height to be 

 about 75 feet above the level of the sea, and that it was a hill of 

 rock (granite and gneiss, as Rae has recorded it), having on its eastern 

 side a small inclined plane leading from the coast up to a gap on the 

 ridge. From the top of the hill. Cape Lady Pelly and the land on the 

 east side of the sea of Ak-koo-lee were plainly visible. At 7.15 p. m., 

 having made scarcely more than a mile an hour on a course south- 

 west from this point, he rested for the night, making his forty-fifth 

 encampment on a sand-plain covered with very dirty snow. The after- 

 noon route had been one of perplexing difficulties in making any head- 

 way with tlie loaded sledges, but the discovery of clay and sand hills 

 of a most interesting character, containing stores of valuable fossils of 

 inimmerable kinds, well repaid him for the outlay of liunian and dog 

 muscle tlifif li;i(l been expended in getting through the labyrinth of 

 this "iiiiid ;iii(l lossil city," as he hastily called the place. On getting 



