274 Plans for the Ne.rt Year. ijunc, isee. 



gain this lielp or to return with them to the United States. But the 

 hitter of tliese is not named in the journals of that season. 



For a renewed advance he had fully decided that he must have 

 the services of several armed white men as a guard, and he knew as 

 well that he must secure full provision for a long" journey and at least 

 one good dog-team. To procure the dogs might prove to be his hardest 

 work. For either one or both of these objects, he would be dependent 

 on the further continuance of good-will between himself and the Re- 

 })iilse Bay natives and between them and the Pelly Ba}^ men; for, as 

 these men had already caused his own Eskimos to turn back at the very 

 point from which he had been ready to cross to King William's Land, 

 it was clear that, even if no hostile attack were made, the same intimi- 

 dations brought to bear upon any new party might arrest its work. 

 Among the Neitchilles a guard might be a necessity. 



Tliat the Pelly Bay men were, as Mam-marh had told him, ''a 

 queer people, doing many strange things," came out very plainly in 

 their intercourse from the day of their again meeting wdth Hall and 

 his natives. See-jJung-er, who had been the first to overtake the 

 return party on their journey, was quickly the occasion of an appre- 

 hension that he would bring out an old feud with them ; for no 

 sooner had he met with his first success in the use of a gun, than he 

 was heard to say it would be a good thing to kill Innuits with as well 

 as deer. He proved to be a careless fellow, too, in using the weapon, 

 and Ibill felt sure tliat if his men could prevent it, See-pung-er would 

 never ])<■ allowed to carry it back to his own country. 



The rest of the Pell}' Ba}- men were willingly delayed some time 

 on tlicir jdiinicy by a long nuisk-ox hunt. Their coming down to 

 F-ii()(.k->li<M)-lik, when; Hall inad(! his fifty-second encampment, on 



