CHAPTER X. 



Counter-claims on the IN^a!ITS roii theiu dogs — Hall determines to make a sledge jour- 

 ney TO Ig-loo-lik to purchase his own team— Lkavks Ships' Harbor Islands Febru- 

 ary 7 — First delays— Ou-e-la loses his way — Provisions become scarce— The 

 mouths of the dogs tied up to prevent their eating the harness — Am-i-toke 



reached, but no natives found — Ou-E-LA ACCUSES HaLL OF BRINGING HIM TO STARVA- 

 TION— IG-LOO-LIK REACHED ON THE 27TH — PURCHASE OF DOGS — VlSIT TO TeRN ISLAND, TO 



Parry's flag-staff — Ou-e-la puts a widow and her household goods on the re- 

 turn SLED — Hall puts her off on the ice — Starts back with another native as 

 driver — Ou-e-la's bad conduct on the return — Hall again sights the ships on 

 THE 30th of March — The captains now refuse to let him have the men for his 

 journey. 



Dogs enough could be found among tlie natives. They owned 

 sixty-eight ; a number sufficient for nine or ten ordinary teams. Hall 

 had several dogs of his own, and asked but thirteen, to make up the two 

 teams he needed. He had anticipated no difficulty in securing these, 

 for he had just claims upon the natives, as he had bargained for such 

 as he would ask for, and really paid for the larger number in tobacco 

 and other articles. But the captains of the four vessels unitedly inter- 

 posed. They insisted that not a single dog should be permitted by 

 the Innuits to go on this journey; claiming that they "had fed these 

 people through the winter, and had as yet no opportunity of receiving 

 much in return. The natives would soon need all their dogs in sled- 

 ding blubber and bone from the open water to the ships, and the time 



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