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nearly all of them were starved to death, 'llie knife had Ijeen nsed 

 to scoop the brains out of the skulls of those who had been murdered 

 to preserve the lives of the rest. Finding that Ou-e-la seemed deter- 

 mined to take back with him to Repulse Bay the family with whom 

 he had been bargaining, Hall at first resolved to make his own quick 

 return without him, by taking E-nu-men, a native whom he had 

 engaged on Tern Island, as the driver of a full team for a sledge made 

 of liOiD, with just enough food for six days. He could thus hope to 

 get back in time to leave Repulse Bay for King William's Land by the 

 1st of April. JE-nu-men agreed to go on as fast as he could drive, leav- 

 ing Ou-e-la to come as he pleased. But as the dogs got at tliis how sled 

 and nearly ate it up. Hall concluded that the journey could not be 

 safely made on a sled which might at any moment be devoured by 

 the hungry beasts; nor could Ou-e-la be trusted to bring down the 

 other dogs in season. A tremendous gale, with falling and driving 

 snow, was a further discouragement, the snow being very soft. 



On the 14th, a visit was made to Ar-lang-nuk, the spot where Parry 

 erected his flag-staff, and then to Turton Bay. He found a pile or 

 collection of stones where the flag-staff was deposited, and says: "On 

 removing the snow, which only partially covered the stones, I found 

 an excavated place in the center of the circular pile. I then lifted out 

 several large stones, which had probably been thrown in when the flag- 

 staff had been taken down. Then I came to disintegrated limestone 

 of such small size that one could hold fifty or sixty pieces in one hand. 

 On removing a mass of this, I came to chips and fragmentary pieces 

 of the flag-staff. After digging down two feet, I came to where the 

 limestones were frozen solid, thus preventing any further research 



downward. * * * Could I have dug down into the 

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