306 Tlie Team Made Up. iiuarch, isor. 



frozen mass of limestones, I doul)t not I could have found the bottle 

 containinir the ^vl•itten doeumeut which Parry executed and deposited 

 there. * * * Xhe piles, or collections, of stones about 

 the flag--staff spot are placed in such order as to represent the four 

 cardinal points of the true compass. * * * There is 

 tlie furmw or trench, now evidently just as distinct as when first made 

 from the sea-coast to the flag-staff spot ; — made in dragging the flag- 

 staff from the sea to where it was raised. This furrow, made in the 

 disintegrated limestone, is of rounded form, and from two to four 

 inches in d( -ptli. I was greatly surprised to find this trench so perfect 

 and unmistakable as to its cause." The name of the land at and 

 around this spot is Koo-pra-look-too. 



While Hall was visiting a place of such historic interest, he was 

 awaitiiiL!' the i-eturn of Oii-e-Ja who had been sent off a few miles to 

 get some of the dogs, but after his return, a heavy gale still prevented 

 the setting out for Repulse Bay. He now gathered his teams, and 

 rising at four o'clock in the morning of the next day, he distrib- 

 uted the remainder of his pi-esents and cut up his large sea-chest to 

 give to the men to make their arrows, speArs, and harpoons. A stake 

 was then driven ddwii, and the natives were called upon to tie to it all 

 the dogs he had purchased, but he had now one cause of complaint — 

 the (tidy one named as to this people, of whom he speaks as among 

 the kindest and ni(»st honest of their race. It was this: One dog was 

 Ijrought, small, earless, and poor; and on its being refused as not the 

 on<- purchased, further compensation was asked for the one which was 

 theu ).rou;.rlii lni\v;ird. Th(^ additional pay was given, and this dog 



J»ro\((l the l)c>t of tlie team. 



Iiaviii;_r now succeeded in tlui objcct for whicli this severe journey 



