July, 1806.] Hall Begins Wis Survey of lle})idse Bat/. 2 7 J) 



with the Pelly Bay men, lie liad crossed from Twillik to tlie west side 

 of the ba}^, to a point where he discovered a ri\er of ^\ liidi ihc Immits 

 had often spoken, and wliich lie now named Orlnncll lii\cr; it was 

 found to be as large as the North Pole Kiver of Dr. Uae Ou-e-la, 

 wishing- to visit his wife's grave on Tee-kee-ra, was Hall's dog-driver, 

 and with his usual success killed several seals on the journey. The 

 travel was difficult; they had a small sled and a small team; and the 

 snow Avas tracked with blood from the feet of the dogs, made sore Ijy 

 the hard and sharp roughnesses of the ice-crystals on the floes. The 

 travelers themselves had a shelter for the night within a snow wall 

 18 inches in height, across which they stretched their blankets. 

 While Ou-e-la was on his hunt, Hall had to make his lunch on the 

 vermin dug out from underneath the deer-skins. Astronomical obser- 

 vations gave for the position of Tee-kee-ra, latitude 66° 26'. 



On the 14th of the month he began from E-noo-shoo-lik his long 

 desired attempt to sketch a full outline of the coast for his friends the 

 whalers ; hoping thus to tempt their more frequent visits to the bay. 

 He had for his companions only two Innuit boys, Oot-pik and She-nuk- 

 slioo, who were to be drivers and hunters. With these he started first 

 for Fort Hope. On the first day, the chronometers were injured by 

 the breaking of the tie while passing over very rough floes. The 

 dogs suffered much from sore feet ; one of them falling into a crack 

 in the ice was saved only by the use of a lasso. 



The second day was divided between surveying and an advance 

 on the route. But after a halt to secure a deer, the travel was con- 

 tinued until 3 a. m. of the 1 6th, when they reached the banks of North 

 Pole River. On the last part of their route the melted snow had been 

 found in some places standing to the depth of three feet on the ice; 



