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TentiHjj-riace on Gifford River. 



[May, 1S68. 



company' with Frank, Fapa, Tou-tee-che-uk, liis wife, and two children; 

 he ])egan a journey to Parry's "GifFord E-iver," liaving heard in con- 

 versations subsequent to those wdiich have been referred to that a 

 tenting-place and otlier signs of white men would be found there. 

 On the 19th, he entered tliis river, which proved to be really an arm 

 of tlie sea, receiving several rivulets which his guide said are filled 

 with salmon in the autumn. Its Imuiit name, Kun-nuk-chi, means a bay. 

 On the northeast shore a tenting-place was found, of which Hall 

 made the accompanying sketch; but, with the exception of two shot 



and a peculiar arrangement 

 of the stones, there was no 

 special indication of its hav- 

 ing been occupied by civil- 

 ized men. It will be re- 

 membered that Parry's men 

 visited it. On this journey 

 several seal agloos were seen, 

 from which the young seals 

 escaped, but a skillful Innuit captured a full-grown animal while he 

 was sleeping and sunning himself on the ice. The usual strategy had 



SCKAl'KK, 10 ATTKACT THK SEAL. 



been exercised of hitching the body, feet foremost, step by step, to- 

 w;u-<l the seal, ;iiid occasional!}- laising tlio h(;ad and looking around, 



