342 Grinnell Lake and Brevoort River. [Apm, isos. 



which they put on their rue-raddies, (harness), helping the dogs up a very 

 steep hill, and then descending swiftly into the river-bed ; and after fur- 

 ther delays among the rough rocks which pushed up through the ice, 

 at 6.30 p. m. they built an igJoo on the river. Hall immediately 

 climbed a high peak in the range of mountains before him, from which 

 he had a fine view of the suiTOunding country. On the east was an 

 extensive plain ; on the north, the high land about Hooper Inlet ; and 

 southward and westward, mountains after mountains rose in confused 

 masses : a pass seemed to open itself about ten miles to the south. 



On the 19th, the travel u}) the river was continued as far as the 

 lake from which it flows, after riding on the smooth surface of which 

 more than five hours they built their fourth igloo Hall named the 

 lakelet Grinnell Lake ; during the night the cracking of the ice on it 

 sounded like continuous artillery. Not a sign of life had been seen 

 since leaving Quilliam Creek ; and Koo-loo-a told Plall that no other 

 Innuit knew this route, which he had discovered when hunting. 



At noon of the next day, on the western end of Grinnell Lake, 

 they found a large open pool with no anchor-ice on its bottom rock. 

 Salmon were swimming in it. To the little stream which ran from 

 this lake Hall gave the name of Brevoort River. A lakelet into 

 wliifli it expanded being found to be covered with water with nnu Ii 

 tliiii ice over it, a passage was made over the land until the river was 

 again entered, when the traveling became very fatiguing through the 

 soft snow, wliicli wns melting under the southerly winds. PLall's limb 

 was now so painful as to compel him to ride nearly all tlio time, and 

 he could make but few observations ; but his next igloo was made 

 near the spot where Koo-loo-a " saw the tracks of white men and heard 

 the report of a gun more than thirteen years before." The day follow- 



