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can possibly believe otherwise tluiii that part of the lost coni})aiiions 

 of Franklin and Crozier have been living for several years on Melville 

 Peninsula." But while preparing to visit Tern Island he made a survey 

 of the Oo-glit group. Its open sea was rolling its high waves upon the 

 shore, and its waters were ahve with walrus, ducks, and sea-gulls — 

 now-yers. Thousands of ducks filled the air with such music as made 

 the place anything but solitary. 



On the 12th, his party, w^ith Papa and his family who had now 

 rejoined them, set off for Ig-loo-hk and Tern Island, but when near 

 the former place they met with a sister of Kia, a long conversation 

 with whom brought out facts substantiating the same old story ; at Tern 

 Island the new friend, Kud-loon, gave him essentially the same particu- 

 lars. The people of this island being found destitute. Hall shared with 

 them some of his supplies, and made them presents. Confined to his 

 hut by snow-blindness (an-Tcoot-ed for it), the an-ge-ko gave as a reason 

 for his sufferings that he had eaten out of an unsuitable pan, and had 

 visited the igloo of one of Koo-loo-a^s wives on the Oo-glit Islands at a 

 time when he should not have done so. Before leaving Tern Island, he 

 bartered needles, thimbles, fish-hooks, &c., for dogs, intending to make 

 an exploring journey down the east side of Fox Channel, but again 

 relinquished such an object, saying he had at last been able to conquer 

 his almost uncontrollable desire to discover new lands, and had brought 

 back his feelings of duty, to stick to the mission of finding out about 

 the lost white men. Nood-loo, a native of Ig-loo-Hk, drew for him the 

 accompanying sketch of Murray Maxwell Inlet. This inlet, near the 

 east end of Fury and Hecla Strait, he learned, is in reality a Sound, 

 sweeping round to the eastward and forming a large island. 



To prosecute yet one more search, on the 18th of the month, in 



