338 Reception at the Oo-fjlit Islands. laphi, ises. 



when reaching the latitude of the north end of Am-i-toke, turned to the 

 westward and encamped near it. They met fresh foot-prints seem- 

 ingly of two men and a dog, and supposed that the men had been Aval- 

 rusing at the north on the drift-ice, which, being carried away had 

 brought them to this point before they had a chance of gaining the 

 firm ice. On the 6th of April, the thirteenth igloo was built at a point 

 called by the Innuits King-me-toke-big, not far from the Oo-glit 

 Islands, and the day following, when within a short drive from these 

 islands, an Innuit who had been out all night on liis watch, came up to 

 them with his full sealing-gear. He proved to be an old man whom 

 Hall had never before seen, but he gave some information as to the 

 number of natives on the islands, and at Ping-it-ka-lik and Ig-loo-lik. 

 Coming to the islands. Hall's party saw standing on the hill-top a row 

 of Innuits watching them; Papa fired off his gun, and the old man, 

 Too-loo-arch-oo, cried out to them at the top of his voice, '' Mitter Hall, 

 Mitter Hall !" The natives of the village, when they caught the words, 

 answered with loud cries, set to dancing, and ofiered as warm a recep- 

 tion as on the previous year. When they crowded into the quickly- 

 built igloo, they were at once met with inquiries as to the accounts of 

 the white men said to have been seen on the Strait. 



Hall remained at these islands from the 7th to the 16th of the 

 month, partly to obtain supplies of walrus-meat for the continuance of 

 his journey, but chiefly to get from the natives all further information 

 he possibly could, for or against the statements he had received. On 

 the journey lie had sprained his left leg while climbing over the rough 

 ice, and this confined him to his bed for several days. While Ebier- 

 bing went to Ig-loo-lik for dog-food, the natives employed Hall's dogs 

 in their own service, their stock having nearly all been swept away by 



