April, 1S0S.1 l^aiKi Loses IlaWs Notes. .'i37 



5U0 percussion-caps; a liberal supply of ball, powder, and shot; 1,500 

 needles, and 80 thimbles, besides combs, looking-glasses, buttons, beads, 

 brass rings, fish-hooks, and files, &c. The experience of his visit of 

 the previous year to Ig-loo-lik had taught him something of the value 

 set upon the smallest of these articles, even upon scraps of iron and 

 wood. 



On arriving at the head of Haviland Bay, he crossed the land, 

 taking nearly the same route with that followed the year before, and 

 on the oOtli made his seventh igloo of the journey on a lakelet just 

 above Lyon's Inlet. While here engaged chiseling a hole through 

 the ice, he had the lamentable misfortune to see Papa flying in full 

 chase after some of his freshly- written notes, which, on unloading the 

 sledge, had been suddenly swept out of their fur-cover by a furious 

 blast of the gale. Papa returned in three-quarters of an hour ; but, 

 after chasing the books over the lake and beyond the rising ground, 

 he had lost sight of the jottings made since leaving Talloon. The 

 flying drift buried them forever. 



When starting on the second day following, bridle-drags were 



prepared for the sledges, as they had now to descend a steep hill into 



a river-bed ; a moment after. Papa ran the sled Erebus upon the point 



of a sharp rock which knocked off some of the mossing, whereupon 



he angrily got a large stone and pounded the point to powder. 



There was, however, a delay of but five minutes. On the 2d, they 



reached Fox Channel, and made their tenth igloo at Oo-soo-ark-u; 



and here Hall remained one day to please his companions. He took 



observations for position, and left a deposit of 103 pounds of bread and 



64 pounds of pemmican for his return journey. In consequence of 



heavy and rough ice met with on the 4th they struck offshore, and, 

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