CHAPTER IX 



Conditions necessaky for a new journey — Experience with the natives of Pelly Bay — 

 Arrival of the tribe at E-nook-shoo-lik — Hall goes out to meet tiiem — Reception 

 OF THEIR an-ge-ko— Their story of the white man's monument at Shar-too— The 



TIN cup with paper IN IT WHICH WAS THROWN AWAY — THE SKELETONS BY THE MONU- 

 MENT — The SUPERSTITIONS OF THESE PEOPLE — HaLL ACCUSED OF BRINGING SICKNESS 

 AMONG THEM — ThE HANGING OF THE OLD CHIEF AND HIS WIFE BY THEIR SON "tO TAKE 

 THEM TO THE HAPPY LAND" — HaLL KEEPS THE PEACE BETWEEN THE PeLLY BaY AND THE 



Eepulse Bay natives— Settles some old feuds in his tupik — His sledge journeys 



FOR survey of the BAY — EMBARRASSMENTS IN HIS WORK — DEATH OF OU-E-LA'S WIFE — 



Ill-treatment of women — Arrival of the whalers — Hall requests them to spare 



MEN FROM their CREWS FOR HIS NEXT JOURNEY — HiS ASSISTANCE TO THE CAPTAINS— TlIK 

 SHIPS DECIDE TO WINTER IN THE BAY— HaLL ENCAMPS NEAR THEM IN NOVEMBER— INTER- 

 COURSE THROUGH THE WINTER — THI'^ CAPTAINS WILL NOT LET THE InNUITS FURNISH HIM 

 WITH DOGS. 



"Disappointed but not discouraged"; — yet Hall, when writing 

 this, had a full consciousness that at least nine months must be 

 passed before he could set his face again toward Ki-ki-tuk for the 

 Records. He had turned back from Colvile Bay, as has been noted, 

 with the words above, written down in his notes in sorrow, butAvitli an 

 unbroken purpose. The experience of the sledge journey had satis- 

 fied him that he nmst try to organize his party more wisely, if he 

 would secure even partial success ; and he looked forward with the 

 hope of obtaining assistance for this from the whalers when they 

 should come into the bay. The alternatives before him were either to 

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