iTiay, is«8.] Morc Tollcs with the Tnnuits. 353 



as tlie animal constantly does when on the watch, the man then drop- 

 pmg his head into a cat-nap, and finally scratching on the snow with 

 the scraper, which is made for this purpose. By thus imitating the 

 noise which the seal makes with his flipper, he enticed it to come 

 near him. The harpoon was then swiftly driven in. 



By noon of the 21st, Hall had passed through some severe storms, 

 but was again near Ig-loo-lik, and, after holding more talks through 

 the next five days, prepared to return to Repulse Bay. For his sup- 

 plies to reach that place he found it necessary to take great care of 

 what he had collected; for, with a new experience of his Iiniuit friends, 

 he now found that no sooner did he barter for walrus-meat than a 

 crowd rushed into his igloo and devoured it. They seem to have 

 looked upon his stores as inexhaustible, and felt they had claims upon 

 him for the information given in the long talks into which he had led 

 them. The details of these talks fill a number of pages in the books 

 A and B, heretofore named. They were essentially repetitions of the 

 conversations in April. 



An intelligent Innuit named Oong-er-luk drew for him just before 

 his leaving Ig-loo-lik the accompanying sketches of the coast of Fox 

 Channel and of Admiralty Inlet. They have been reproduced liter- 

 ally from Hall's note-books. The Innuit names are those given by 

 Oong-er-luk for the numbers which he placed on his maps. His 

 sketches, with those drawn by Ar-mou, Ou-e-la, Papa^ and In-nook-poo- 

 zhe-jook in 1869, are presented as specimens of Innuit ideas of native 

 localities ; — ideas generally found to be very correct, as it will be 

 remembered were those shown by the map drawn by the woman I-lig- 

 liuk for Parry. [See also Chapell's letter to Hall, page ."^5 of this 

 Narrative.] 



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