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maining for some days in this locality, he discovered and surve}'ed a 

 creek called by the Innuits Nee-bar-bic. He then learned that there 

 was another bay on the east side of Lyon's Inlet corresponding in lati- 

 tude to Parry's Norman Creek, and was thus able to understand some 

 difficulties. Parry had erroneously given the Innuit name of his Nor- 

 man Creek as Neeb-wa-wik, the y)ronunciation of which is close to 

 that of Nee-bar-bic. When Hall had heard of this last creek from the 

 Innuits he had taken it to be Parry's Norman Creek, and could not 

 understand that the distinguished navigator had placed this ien miles 

 out of position ; it was the application of the Innuit name only which 

 was wrong. He was gratified by the discovery of a new creek in an 

 inlet which Lyon had so thoroughly examined that he thought no arm 

 or branch had been overlooked ; but believed that the approach had 

 been hidden from these officers by a high island. 



When the party wished to encamp at night on the 14th of the 

 month, they took possession of a newly-deserted igloo. It was dark 

 at 4 p. m., when they entered, but soon afterward an Innuit known 

 as Tom came in with his child from one of his deer-meat caches. He 

 brought the news that Ar-tung-iin — the man who at Ig-loo-lik had 

 once exchanged names with Hall — was at the point of death in a vil- 

 lage a little northward. Hall visited him the next day, but found 

 that the poor consumptive was past saving, and was insisting that his 

 son should end his sufferings by stabbing him or by shooting him with 

 an arrow, against which Hall's earnest interposition was ineffectual. 

 The igloo which he had been occupying had been built by Ar-tung- 

 un^s son, that he might remove to it instantly on his father's death, 

 and so avoid the loss of several days of mourning. The day follow- 

 ing he hung his father. 



