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ing" they came to a frozen cascade, 15 feet in lieiglit, where the river 

 seemed to have cut its way through soHd granite GO feet wide and 25 

 feet high, and a few hours afterward they passed out upon the bay, and 

 built their sixth igloo on the ice of the sea of Ak-koo-lee, lat. 69° 47'.5. 

 The next day was one of rest for the Innuits, who were suffering from 

 snow-blindness. Hall made for them a wash of sugar of lead and 

 laudanum. From a piece of driftwood J^oo- 

 loo-a made eye-shades. In company with 

 Frank Lailor, Hall looked carefully from the 

 top of Cape Englefield for any signs of white 

 men, but could see none ; he made his own 

 monument on the Cape — a pile of three large 

 stones, the lowest resting on his clay pipe. A hawk was seen, and 

 tracks of deer, of bears, and ermine were numerous ; on the ice were 

 many regular paths worn in the snow by the bears, but no animal 

 showed himself to the travelers The jumps of the little ermine in the 

 snow showed that they had been full six feet each. 



Early on the 23d, most of the stores were deposited in an igloo^ 

 over which "a flag was left swinging in the wind to keep off the bears," 

 when the whole company started down the coast to visit the monu- 

 ment described by Koo-loo-a; but, on his being taken sick, the visit was 

 arrested for that day. Out on the sea was a long line of fog, showing 

 itself to the south as far as the eye could follow it Koo-loo-a said 

 there was open water there all winter, and that many walrus were 

 caught there. Land now discovered by Hall west-northwest from 

 Cape Englefield proved to be a long low island. Koo-loo-a said that 

 bears were often killed on it while wintering under the snow. 



Of this discovery his little note-book of the evening says: ''On 



