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Imd been made, lie was eager to begin liis return to the bay. But, 

 when entirely ready to leave his encampment a few miles from Ig-loo- 

 lik, he found that Oii-e-la had put on the sled a widow and her child, 

 with all her traps; and he was proof against all expostulation as to the 

 delay on the journey which this must cause. Hall then started with 

 Ook-jnk and JE-nu-men and his family on a kow sled, and, quickly 

 overtaking Ou-e-la, again remonstrated with him, ordering him to leave 

 the widow behind. Succeeding by bribes in inducing the woman to 

 stay, he finally put her oif on the ice, getting the promise of several 

 natives to take care of her return to her friends. But the loss of 

 Ou-e-la^s new wife proved a trouble greater to Hall than to the disap- 

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The travel was heavy, the pe-to more than once broke, and some 

 of the dogs were continually straying off; by night an advance of 

 only live miles had been made. The teams were then found to be 

 made up of forty-eight dogs, eighteen of which had been purchased. 

 But as all were not at hand, the whole of the next day was spent in 

 going to find the lost ones. Then, four more of them escaping in the 

 night, Oot-pik went back for them, while the rest of the party pressed 

 on to Ping-it-ka-lik. Here E-nu-men conducted the party to a ridge 

 of limestone, on digging down a foot into which, they found two logs of 

 old walrus, which they lashed on their koiv sledge. From this point 

 he chose a route almost always inshore from that by which Hall and 

 Ou-e-la had gone up to Ig-loo-lik, and on this line he crossed a bay on 

 the west side of Fox Channel, extending fifteen miles to the south- 

 west. Hall had not found this bay on Parry's chart, but did not con- 

 sider this strange, as Parry's was a ^'marine survey only." From this 

 bay he passed into a lake twenty-five miles in length, lat. 68° 45', long. 

 82° W., on which lake they made their hjlov by the side of a ridge of 



