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the 10th of June, excited new fears. lie had come over from his 

 quiet rest at Fort Hope, where lie had much desired to make up tlie 

 the notes of liis kite sledge journey, because the Innuits had repre- 

 sented that they must move nearer the whaling grounds before the 

 disappearance of the snow and ice should take from them the means of 

 transporting their boats and sledges. To be at hand for the capture 

 of whales was also what he most desired for himself, in order to 

 further his plans for securing the services of the white men. 



A few days after his coming down, an alarm was given that 

 strangers were seen in the distance, and Oong-oo-too, harnessing up 

 his dogs, drove Hall rapidly over the sea-ice to meet them. At 11 p. 

 m. they were found at a time when in trouble at crossing a fissure 

 in the ice ; their driver, taking Hall's advice to pull his dogs back 

 from the slush in which they were plunging, crossed over readily a 

 little nearer the encampment. The old chief Koh-lee-arng-nun and 

 his followers renewed cordial greetings with Hall's part}^ Their 

 teams were joined and sledges formed in line, and a triple team fol- 

 lowed into E-nook-shoo-lik b}^ a motley group, made up of sixteen men, 

 women, and children. The IivilllU women then marclied up singly 

 behind the Pelly Bay an-ge-lco, and hung, each, some odd article, as a 

 bead, a piece of took-too fringe, or an old razor upon his jacket ; the 

 an-r/e-ko himself raising his eyes solemnly upward and now and then 

 extending his risrht arm. Each Innuit took one or more of the 

 strangers into his tupiJc, Hall having for his guest his old friend KoJ:- 

 lee-arng-nun; after which, festivities followed during some days, includ- 

 ing a mock musk-ox hunt, in which men and boys, wearing the skins 

 of the animals, were fiercely hunted by other men and dogs. 



But throughout the reception, each of the Pelly Bay men had 



