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for a few days, although their food was nearly gone ; but it was found 

 necessary to tie \\\) their mouths to keep them from eating their draught- 

 lines as they ran. The second day after this, they were fed on a little 

 ooh-gooh blubber found in a deposit on the shore of the sea which they 

 had now reached by an advance of twenty -four miles. At one time 

 they had pulled through a gorge 10 feet wide, the quartz walls of which 

 were 30 feet high. On the 23d, Am-i-toke was reached, but not a native 

 was to he seen. A journey of four days was yet to be made to Ig-loo-lik. 

 A strong wind now preventing any advance, their igloo on the 24th was 

 built about six miles north of the Ooglit Islands. 



The next day twenty-three miles were made ; but at night their 

 food was on some walrus-hide, two years old, which Oii-e-la had found 

 with the blubber at the deposit. On the 26tli, their breakfast was on 

 the very last of the meat. Hall says they satisfied their hunger by 

 sharpening up their knives in anticipation of the walrus feast they 

 might have that night at Ping-it-ka-lik. One of the dogs had been 

 furiously set upon by the rest, and before being rescued was nearly 

 eaten up; she was lashed in furs on the sledge. Through the whole 

 day Ou-e-la was anxiously on the look-out for natives, climbing every 

 high piece of ice, and looking sharply to discover some sledge-track, 

 but finding none, he began to look the very picture of despair. From 

 the slower progress now making, it seemed to him that Ping-it-ka-lik 

 could not be reached before night, and if it were, they would find no 

 Innuits there. Before long, therefore, he burst out in anger, charging 

 Hall with having brought him and his family into a starving and hope- 

 less condition, and his wife and Oot-piJc, catching his spirit, looked as 

 savage, and cried out that they would die from starvation. Hall 

 quieted their fears as best he could, and at night in tlio igloo gave to 



