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ured his base-lines, again sketched the coast-line, and collected much 

 material for its further delineation. For the benefit of his friends 

 the whalers, he made a special survey of the group known as Ships 

 Harbor Islands, to which reference has been more than once already- 

 made. Finding that when his compass was carefully placed in posi- 

 tion and was undisturbed, the needle still shifted in a very short time 

 from four to five degrees, he made for himself a rough instrument, 

 which, he says, answered the purpose of a theodolite. The draughts- 

 man who made the accompanying map has found that the observations 

 made by this instrument agree well. His work was uncomfortably 

 interrupted by the frequent occurrence of rain-storms, one of which 

 continued throughout five days. It cleared off the snow from the 

 land and formed pools of water upon the ice of the bay. 



The natives for the most of the time were scattered : some were 

 at Oo-gla-ri-your Island hunting deer; others on the land fishing for 

 salmon. Mam-mark, who had often made one of his party, died be- 

 fore the month closed, among her friends who were sealing on the 

 ice. Hall's cordial intercourse with the whalers had been promptly 

 renewed, frequent visits being exchanged between ship and shore. 

 Several of their boats' crews had been encamped on Beach Point for 

 some weeks, having been prevented by the ice from getting down the 

 Welcome to Whale Point. When some of these crews had come up to 

 their ships for supplies, and found, after a weary tramp over the ice, that 

 their captains and nearly all the natives were absent sealing. Hall 

 cheerfully assisted them by loaning his own sledge and dogs to take 

 back provisions to the needy. 



On the 3d of July, a party of Ig-loo-lik natives, numbering 

 ten men, twelve women, and twenty-seven children, came down to 



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