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The Starving Natives Assisted. 



[September, 1S67. 



off to Lyon's Inlet to hunt for deer, some going by land from the head 

 of Haviland Bay and others by boats through Hurd's Channel. Hall 

 sent one crew in the Sylvia and another in the Lady PVanklin to the 

 east side of the bay to hunt deer, but they soon returned completely 

 drenched with the rains. A second crew sent out for a whale were 

 equally unsuccessful, and the women and children on shore, number- 

 ing twenty-eight, who had been de- 

 pending on him for food, could receive 

 nothing except some bread and the 

 w^alrus-hide given him by Captain 

 Tyson for dog-food. He then sent 

 some of the white men who were 

 with him on another deer-hunt, and, 

 while waiting their return, distributed 

 to the hungry people all the provis- 

 ions he had, and then returned to his 

 old place on the island, taking with him Ar-moii and his family, one of 

 whom was sick. Two days afterward, his party returned with two 

 deer, and one of the Whalers having caught a whale, the necessities of 

 the Innuits were relieved. Two of their well-filled boats had sighted 

 the capture from the head of the bay, and hastened down to feed on 

 the skin. Hall towed the carcass on shore for dog-food. He found 

 th.at tlie dogs had been eating the bodies of some of the Innuits, 

 wlio ]i;i(l been insecurely buried. 



On tlie 1st of September he again took up his residence at Iwillik, 

 from wlii( h place he made vigorous efforts to secure whales or walrus, 

 but the stormy weather forbade success ; the southeast wind at times 

 dri\ iiig ili<- ice in upon the shore, and a northeaster at other times 



HALLS BOAT-LOG. 



