20(5 Burial of the Bahe. [May, 1866. 



(•1 burial on a little liill, which Hall had selected. Before the remains 



Avere laid in the grave, he wrote out the following- record : 



Tlie.sf are the mortal reiiiains of I>ittle King William, the only child of 

 Ehierbing and Too koo li too, the inter])reters of the last Franklin Research Ex- 

 j.cdition. Deposited here May 13, ISOO, the day of its death. God hath its soul 

 now and will keej) it from all harm. — C. F. Hall, Maij 14, ISGG. 



This he placed within the fur cap covering- the head of the child, 

 and returning next day to the g-rave, he erected near it a monument of 

 five stones, three at the base — typical of Faith, Hope, and Charity — 

 and on these the two others, forming the figure of a cross 



At the burial, though it was blowing a gale and a snow-drift was 

 flying, the mother could not be prevailed upon to wear he.r double 

 jacket to i)rotect herself from the storm. " She must needs comply 

 with custom." Under the same influence, she had already borne for 

 some days the inconvenience of wet feet; neither could her wet stock- 

 ings be dried, nor the rips in her l)oots repaired. It w^as little comfort 

 to her. a lew days after, to be told by Mam-marh and Nu-ker-zhoo that 

 the child would have lived, as the " Spirit" had said to the an-ge-ko, if 

 she had not consented, by Hall's advice, to receive it back from Nu- 

 hcr-zhoda wife, or if she had not departed from the customs of the In- 

 nuits in the matter of her daily living. She renewed her subjection to 

 the customs of the people, and received their instractions, that for one 

 year her husband and herself must be very careful wdiat they should 

 eat, and tliat tln^ same be not raw; and her husband began his compli- 

 ance NN ith such instructions by pleading the death of his child as for- 

 biddinii- him to carry on his usual daily duties even in the matter of 

 j)reparing the amnniiiition necessary for the hunt. Hall says here that 

 probably none of tin; Eskimo tribes are cursed with so many ridicidous 

 cust.»ms as the l^'cpidse liay and Ig-loo-lik people. 



