322 Juhj the Fourth: [Jniy, iser. 



visit the ships ; among them Hall recognized many of the friends made 

 on his risit in the spring. His former impressions of the dangers 

 througli whieli he was passing from the superstitions of the Iwilhk 

 natives was strengthened now again by Too-koo-H-too, who said that 

 the wife of Oot-pik attributed the death of Queen Emma to the fact 

 that his own Eskimo, Ebierbing, had caught a certain kind of seaL 

 Ou-e-la himself had said the same thing. Hall writes of this: "No won- 

 der our lives have been in danger much of the time while living with 

 these Iwillik people I knew long ago that they thought me the 

 cause of the death of Shoo-sJie-ark-nook and Ar-too-a, but not until now 

 did I know that the death of one of Ou-e-ldJs wives was thought by 

 them to be caused by Ebierbing. It seems that the wife cleaned the 

 skin of Ebierbing's seal of its hair and blubber. Oot-pik^s wife de- 

 clines to eat any of our seal-meat, abundance of which we have in 

 our tent, because he was the one who killed the seals. She had been 

 told by the Iwillik Innuits not to eat any of any seal of Ebierbing's 

 killing, for if she did she would die." 



On the 4th, Hall dined on the Black Eagle with the masters of 

 the shi})s in the harbor, and the national flag was displayed from the 

 mast-head of each vessel and from his own tupik By the 7th of the 

 month open water could be seen to the southward ; it extended itself 

 by the '.>tli above Oo-gla-ri-your Island, now named by the whale- 

 men, Ilall Island. On the night of the 10th, ice of the thickness 

 of coii»iii(»ii window-glass formed on the pools of water of the open 

 spaces amid tli(^ sea-ice near the shore, although Hall's thermom- 

 eter stoo<l at 40^. Mosquitoes had made their appearance as early 

 as tli<' 4tli. 



On the 24ili, the steamer Nimrod, from St. John's (Capt. E. Chapel), 



