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some ammunition. Still the heart of Pa-pa now failed him, and he 

 wished to stop with the women in the camp, which proposition was 

 declined. 



At 7.53 a. m., when the party again started, the sun was out, 

 but the drift still filled the air, confining the view to a radius of 

 a quarter of a mile. Following a north-northeast course, in a half 

 hour they found Innuit foot-prints, which the gale of the night previous 

 had laid bare ; they seemed to have been made the day before. After 

 following for two hours the tracks on this course, the party retraced 

 their steps to the point at which they had first seen the foot-prints, and 

 on advancing in the opposite direction, the dogs soon scented the igloos 

 and flew ahead with so rapid and keen a jump as to trip up Hall and 

 Pa-pa, entangling one of Hall's feet and dragging him along till the 

 company with their whole force stopped the coursers. Ten minutes 

 later they arrived near the igloos, and "Jerry" was cautiously sent for- 

 ward, but soon reappeared with the signal to come on. After a halt of 

 twenty minutes in the gale and drift outside, old Tung-nuk and wife 

 and old Kob-hig appeared armed with long knives, but greeting the 

 new-comers with a welcome. These men had remained at these 

 igloos, while three families had located themselves a short distance 

 northward, the men belonging to them being absent at this time on a 

 musk-ox hunt to the westward. 



On Hall's entering the huts, with "Jerry'' and Pa-pa for interpre- 

 ters, he began at once his usual inquiries about the Franklin Expedition. 

 Kob-hig, like his brother, old Kolc-lee-arng-nun the chief met by Hall 

 in 1866, was sociable, jolly, and apparently kind-hearted. He was a 

 dwarfish creature. In Tung-nuk^s igloo was found a gallon stone jug of 

 a light pinkish hue weighing about S'pounds, the handle broken. Tt was 



