February, 1867.] 



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to Lyon's Inlet for deer-meat, by the 7tli of the month lie luid secured 

 fourteen dogs, and left Sliips Harbor Islands for Ig-hx.-lik. Tlic tem- 

 perature was 40° below zero.* Ebierbing- and Too-koo-U-too, for rea- 

 sons not named, were left belihid, and Frank Lailor, one of the wliite 

 men, was placed in charge of his 'ujJoo. Oa-c-la, vvitli liis wife and 

 half-breed child and the boy Oot-jnk, were his only companions. 



Arriving opposite Pitiktouyer, Oii-e-la, agreeably to Iniuiit custom, 

 went on shore to pay a visit to the grave of liis brother, SJioo-she-ark-nook, 

 and here the first trying delay was met witli; for after a night in an ir/loo, 

 they already missed one of 



the dogs and found two oth- 

 ers to be useless. A return to 

 the ships became necessary. 

 But another delay was occa- 

 sioned by the dog-lines be- 

 coming entangled ; on which 

 the dogs were detached from the j9e-^o, but before being again fast- 

 ened to the sled, they had roughly dragged Hall and Oot-pik along for 

 some distance. This, however, was but a renewal of former experiences ; 

 for Hall had more than once known the dog-teams pull well for a little 

 while, then suddenly wheel around and overturn him and his driver. 

 The remedy had been, to jump in among them and pound away ^^ith 

 the hatchet until they were made tractable. Tlie pe-to^ on wliicli so 

 much depended, was the line, made of heavy walrus or seal skin which 

 fastened the dog-traces to the forward part of the sledge-runners: 



*It certaiuly marks strong resolution ami courage in Hall to undertake this northern 

 trip in Fehrnanj. Captain Nares' (R. N.>ju(lgnient is, that, unless for the purpose of saving life, 

 no one should he called upon to undergo the fearful privations of an Arctic sledge journey 

 during March or even in the early part of April.— (Narrative of a Voyage to tlu' Polar Sea, 1H7S.) 



BE^Ul-TOOTII, USKD AS A TOGliLE. 



