302 nail Buys his Dogs. [Warch, iser. 



requested a professional visit, when two an-ge-kos came to his hut, and 

 after receiving a file as compensation in advance, went through a per- 

 forniancc ''f rw<» Innirs for the relief of his face which was terribly 

 sore from late frost-bites. He thought the performances really won- 

 derful and that these men are not impostors, but exercise their work 



in earnest. 



Having now secured the full good-will of Ig-loo-lik by presenting 

 t<» the women full supplies of needles and beads, — going around himself 

 among the igloos to deliver these, — he built a high, circular wall of snow 

 close to his own hut for a trading mart. In the center of this he 

 placed liis sea-chest, and on it the different articles which he had 

 linuight for the purchase of the dogs. His hst embraced files, hatch- 

 ets, butcher and clas}) knives, and women's or chopping knives, seal 

 and Nvahus harpoons, pieces of old hoop-iron, old whale-irons to make 

 into seal-spears, pieces of wood for arrows, bows and spear-handles, 



iNNiiT .\i:i:ows 



tin Clips and pans, old meat-cans, needles, fish-hooks, fish-lines, pieces 

 of tin for sltnh-hoon (skin-dressing), old wrought nails and other bits of 

 iron, beads, sheet-brass for kar-oons, and iron spoons. There was a 

 crowd of men and women, some of whom had come from Tern Island 

 to receive presents. He traded for fourteen dogs in as many minutes, 

 setting: liis own j)ric(^ on each. 



< )n the rith, he accom])anied several families to a settlement out on 

 the ice, near ili.- walnis-^nninds, mid Iniuid rliere twenty-three igloos; 

 an umi>ii;d n<-;itness showing ilself in tlieir lloors of snow, "iced and 

 nlmoht uiiHtaiiied:"' most ol them l)ein<r lined with seal and walrus 



