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distributed. In the evening the dome of tlie igloo was built up higher, 

 as it was beginning to come down. 



On the 4th, Ebierbing and Norton were painfully affected with 

 snow-blindness, and again a strong breeze with flying drift prevailed; 

 but at 1.40 p. m. the extreme end of Christie Lake was reached, and here, 

 at the " Lower Narrows," a band of sixteen deer was seen; this excited 

 the dogs to increased speed. At 2.55, the party crossed the very short 

 portage between Dr. Rae's One-mile Lake and his Six-mile Lake, from 

 the northwest end of which last they passed on to a pond, and at the 

 end of the next half hour descended the 100-foot bank spoken of by 

 Rae, and made their third igloo on Miles Lake. On the portage 

 between the lakes, a long line of stones was found, set up on a sharp 

 ridge of rocks, to frighten the deer and force them into a particular 

 route. During the day, Norton, who was leading the part}', had sud- 

 denly halted his team on discovering what seemed to him the foot- 

 prints of a man; they were only some of nature's freaks with the 

 snow. The travel had averaged two and a half miles per hour, 

 although the snow was quite deep, and not hardened bv the northward 

 or westerly gales. The snow-blindness of Ebierbing and of Frank 

 and Norton increased ; yet the journey was resumed after having 

 made, for use on the return trip, a deposit of one-third of the provis- 

 ions under the snow bed-platform of the hut which they now left. 



Strange Innuits were here discovered crossing Miles Lake, and 

 coming at first directly toward Hall while loading up his sledge. They 

 proved to be ^'- Koong-ou-e-lih''^ ("Mind-your-own-business") and the big 

 son of Too-sJwo-art-tJiar-i-n, who, with three dogs, were drawing a 

 musk-ox skin filled with the beef The hours from midnight to 3 a. m. 

 were spent in endeavoring to get again upon the tracks of these natives, 



