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their running off, i. c, by tying up one of" the forelegs to the neck. 

 At 5 p. m., doubhng up his teams, he ascended Im-nuk-too, the narrow 

 neck of land at the end of the mile-long lake which forms the water- 

 shed between Committee Bay and Repulse Bay, and at G.50 encamped 

 on the south side of Eae's Six Mile Lake. The travel was excel- 

 lent, although the snow was soft and deep. 



Halting the next day near running water from Miles Lake, the 

 opportunity was embraced of thawing out the whale-meat and tongue, 

 146 pounds of which, placed in the liver, had the frost taken out in one 

 hour; this was fed to the hungry dogs, and they were permitted a day's 

 rest, as the snow in advance of them was discovered to be still very 

 soft. From the top of a hill near by, the sea of Ak-koo-lee, with its 

 vast extent of jumbled ice, was seen by Joe and Nuk-er-^hoo (Jack) — 

 a sea, according to Ou-e-la, to which in olden times Innuits resorted in 

 the fall to kill deer, on the meat of which they lived during the winter, 

 brino^injj whale-blubber from Iwillik for their fuel. 



At 10.13 a. m., March 31, the party reached Cape Lady Pelly, the 

 journey from the point last named having few items of interest. 

 Musk-ox tracks, which once before had threatened to entice the 

 natives off their route, were now plentiful on the banks of the sand- 

 hills near the sea. "Jack" carelessly ran Brevoort sledge across a spit 

 of gravel ; Grrinnell followed suit, and both sleds were halted for 

 re-icing, when the successful experiment was tried of re-mossing Grin- 

 nell sledge with a mixture of snow-water and urine, the latter mak- 

 ing the compound less liable to break up. At Point Hargrave a huge 

 drift had been encountered, into which both sleds were compelled to 

 plunge by the roughness of the ice close up to shore. These incidents 

 held back the advance. In the evening, as soon as the igloos were up, 



