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the dogs with great difficulty dragged the sled through. Hall sent his 

 boys off to hunt, and occupied the next two days in surveys made 

 from Beacon Hill, from which place the coast of Southampton Island 

 again loomed up by refraction. 



Eenewing his journey and arriving again at Tee-kee-ra, he busied 

 himself in renew^ed observations for position, in taking sextant-angles 

 and compass-bearings, and in sketching the coast-line. In such work 

 the time passed far more swiftly than while housed by the storms which 

 had swept over his igloo. The boys proved to be good hunters for deer 

 and for ducks, but failed to secure a single seal by their invariably 

 bursting into a loud laugh when getting near the animals. To help 

 their seal-training, he afterward made for each a shield like those used 

 by the Greenlanders. When he was back at E-nook-shoo-lik the 

 whole party of the Innuits had gone off, leaving no sign whatever to 

 tell the white man where to find them. Hastening to Ships' Harbor 

 Islands, he found no traces of them, and returned to E-nook-shoo- 

 lik to spend two days more in his surveys. Having crossed next 

 to Sheg-lua, at the head of the bay but still without success in his 

 search, on the 28th he set out for Oog-la-ri-your Island, making a diffi- 

 cult journey, but finding his old friends about five miles from the 

 island. The boys were the first to see the tupiks on the shore. Ebier- 

 bing and Too-koo-li-too had been persuaded by the others to go off 

 with some friends for a short deer-hunt. The next sledge trip was to 

 Rock Knob ; thence to Pi-tik-tou-yer Heights, and, finally, back to 

 the neighborhood of E-nook-shoo-lik, during which journeys and up 

 to August H the observations and sketching of the coast-line were con- 

 tinued. 



These liad not been made without trying experiences. The 



