364 Deer-Hunting at Tdlloon. [September, ises. 



blubber and meat; the children "bolted" pieces of the black skin; 

 and trains of dogs pulled "horse-pieces" up the steep rocks. For 

 cooking- some of the meat, iires of bone and oil were made, the Innuit 

 customs forbidding the gathering of wood at such times for fuel. 

 Dried bones found scattered around were collected in a fire-place, 

 which was only a few stones supporting a kettle, the bones answering 

 the purpose also of a wick, and a very hot and sooty fire being thus kept 

 up. The longest blades of bone of this whale measured seven feet; 

 all were willingly and unanimously given by the natives to Hall. 

 The cache was made at Iwillik. 



On the 1 2tli of September, a removal was made, with few of the 

 natives, to the west side of Talloon Bay, where they spent the rest of 

 the month and the month following chiefly in deer-hunting. Hall 

 himself on one day shot five deer in five minutes, and Too-koo-li-too 

 became quite a marksman. 



November 4 a journey was undertaken to Lyon's Inlet to de- 

 termine the location of some places in regard to which Hall had not 

 been satisfied with Parry's chart. His companions were his old 

 friend Papa-teiv-a, with one of his wives and a child ; his team was 

 made up of ten dogs. On the 12th, the part}- were at the head of 

 Haviland Bay; on the 14th, Ross Bay was crossed, and on the 17th 

 an encampment made on the south shore of a peninsula to which the 

 natives gave the same name with their northern settlement — Ig-loo-lik. 

 Here Hall busied himself with the surve}' of the coasts and an exami- 

 nation of the channel called by Parry the Rush of Waters. Visiting 

 the site of a stone pile spoken of by Captain Parry as put up for de- 

 ])0sitiiiga memorandum in tlie absence of Mr. Sherer, one of the ofiicers 

 of liis Second expcflitiuii (1821), Hall fi)nnd it still undisturbed. Re- 



