286 A Second Whale Captured [Angnst, isee. 



Hall to have the head of the bay marked "Unexplored." Captain Mor- 

 gan's observations gave gronnd for hope tliat a new channel might be 

 fonnd. Later in tlie season, by advice from Hall of what Parry and 

 Lvon had said of the whales found in Gore Bay and Lyon's Inlet, and 

 from what the natives also said of this, a boat was sent into those 

 waters from each of the vessels, but without success. 



The parties sent out to hunt for supplies for the ships were gen- 

 erally diligent and successful. One of these, after killing six deer, re- 

 turned without Ebierbing; on their reporting which. Hall immediately 

 went back witli them, and found his lost man at the head of the bay. 

 He had been too bus}^ in the hunt to keep sight of his companions, 

 and was well satisfied that he would be sent for; but he had had the 

 pleasant experience of finding a wolf upon his track, to escape from 

 which he had to wade into a lake and remain there until he tired out 

 the animal's watch. Hall and his party heavily loaded themselves 

 with Ebierbing's venison, but on their way to the boat. Hall was 

 nearly choked by the string which held his pack catching tight under 

 his chin. 



Another party of six men and three boys, sent out for the double 

 purpose of killing deer, and, if possible, a whale, secured a whale, 

 cached the blubber and brought back the bone from the head. From 

 its length — 9 feet 6 inches from the butt to the end of the hair — Hall 

 judged that sixty barrels of oil could be made from the blubber. The 

 whale's whole length was GO feet. 



By the 1st of September, with the help of Ebierbing, Ar-mou, and 

 two otlier natives, he finished gumming, washing and preparing the bone 

 of this whale and what remained of the one killed the year before. 

 A ])art (>^ the bone belonging to him had been carried off from the 



