278 Quarrels Settled. [jime, isoe. 



nfiu liad closed, in liis tuinl:^ their long-standing grudge, the blind old 

 chief confessing that he had once wronged See-gar by deserting him 

 when nearly starving, and See-gar avowing that he no longer retained 

 anv ill-feeling. The two men then sealed their renewed friendship by 

 such jests as these: ^^ KoJc-lee-arg-niin, why are you now tottering 

 around with a staff, crooked as you are, your face with deep furrows, 

 and vour eves dim; you used to be the smartest and best-looking 

 Innuit in the whole country?" ''But, See-gar, how is it that gou are 

 no longer fond of all the pretty women to be found?" — which last 

 speech brought out a general laugh, as See-gar^s reputation in this mat- 

 ter was well established. 



Besides these reconciliations and the previous unhappy troubles 

 which have been referred to, little more is found in Hall's notes of the 

 intercourse between the two tribes, except that they remained near 

 to each other and to the whalers, who, when they came, gave em- 

 ployment to both on their ships. While so employed, Kooiig-e-oii-uk, 

 the Pelly Bay an-ge-Jw, having been severely beaten by a sailor 

 belonging to Captain Kilmer's ship through a misunderstanding about 

 a pair of boots which the wife of the native was making, was pro- 

 tected through Hall's interposition. 



While waiting for the coming of the whalers, he could not remain 

 unrucupied. He planned for himself the work of a survey of the bay 

 ol wliich Ou-e-la dren for him a rough sketch. He hoped also to 

 secure at least one whale, the })roceeds of which with those of the 

 ftnc cached the year before, would be so much toward the pay of the 

 guard lie would need for Neitchille. 



1 "he .sledge journeys made for this survey are marked on the 

 accuuipanying map. They were mainly these: Before meeting again 



