CHAPTER XII. 



Hai.l purposes to visit the northern part of Melville Peninsula — Reasons for this 



JOURNEY IN place OF ONE TO KiNG WILLIAM'S LaND — THE INFORMATION FROM THE NA- 

 TIVES OF A MONUMENT AND TRACES OF WHITE MEN SEEN THERE SINCE 18G3 — PURCHASES THE 

 FEW DOGS STILL ALIVE AMONG THE NATIVES — UlS PROVISION-LIST FOR THE JOURNEY AND 

 ARTICLES OF BARTER — LOSES SOME OF HIS NOTES BY THE GALE — ENCAMPS OX THE ICE 

 NEAR THE OOGLIT ISLANDS — CONVERSES WITH THE NATIVES — VISITS PaRRY BaY WITH 



Koo-Loo-A — Finds a monument— Digs in vain for the cache— Finds the remains of 



A TENTING-PLACE ONCE OCCUPIED BY WHITE MEN — DISCOVERS GRINNELL LaKE AND BrE- 



vooRT EivER — Visits Amherst Island — Returns to Tern Island — Holds further 

 conversations with the natives — receives several maps drawn by the eskimos — 

 Visits Gifford River to find another tenting-place — Returns to Repulse Bay — 

 Salmon-fishing and deer-hunts — Mutiny of one of the five white men — Loss of 

 LIFE — Capture of a second whale — Journey to Lyon's Inlet — Survey — Discharge 

 OF the four white men — Hall dries venison and prepares pemmican in his own 

 IGLOO — Plans for a new sledge journey to King William's Land. 



Before the winter of 1867-68 closed, every preparation had been 

 made for renewing the advance of the preceding- year. But Hall now 

 felt himself suddenly and unexpectedly called to that part of Melville 

 Peninsula which borders on Fury and Hecla Strait. His reasons for 

 making this journey in place of going to King William's Land, were in 

 his own mind sufficient to induce the change ; they are here given in 

 nearly the language of his own notes, unimportant details only being 

 omitted. 



In the latter part of October, 1867, Papa-te-wa, a brother of ^r- 

 mou, had told him that a few years before, an Innuit had seen, some- 



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