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through these fossil hills and returning- to his iffloo, ho found that 

 Nu-ker-zJioo had put within it all the deer he had killed; a most kindly 

 act, done without even a hint. It was another gratiiication to learn 

 that his own black dog had added eight pups to their live stock. 



On the 13th, the long-expected death of Too-koo-li-too's child, 

 Little King William, took place. The almost distracted mother, the 

 moment she found that it was really dead, rushed out of the igloo, 

 pressing the dead baby to her bosom and pouring out her soul's deep 

 grief. Her leaving the igloo so quickly was in accordance with Innuit 

 custom ; for if this is not done when any one dies in it, everything 

 within becomes worthless. Tn this case it was considered that the 

 mother went out soon enough, so that the bedding and everything 

 else need not be thrown away. In ten minutes she returned and 

 took her seat on the bed-platform, grieving for a very long time as a 

 loving mother only grieves. At lengtli she was persuaded by Mam- 

 mark to let the dead babe be taken from her bosom and wrapped 

 in a small furred took-too skin. Mam-mark insisted that, according 

 to the custom of her people, the remains must be buried at once ; 

 but, on Hall's remonstrating and urging that they should be kept till 

 at least the next day, a compromise was made, and the child that died 

 at 25 minutes past 1 p. m. was buried at 6.30. The remains had 

 been dressed in a suit of young took-too furs, made by the mother the 

 winter before They were now wrapped in a blanket of took-too skin 

 of long fur, tied witli thongs, and having a loop in it to go over the 

 neck of the mother, who must carry the corpse. A hole having been 

 cut through the wall of the igloo for the procession of four persons in 

 single file, Hall, Mam-mark, the bereft mother with the babe suspended 

 from her neck, and the father following close, proceeded to the ])lace 



