April, 1869.J A Hunt for Musk-Cattle. 3U5 



to bay, nearly tearing off his skin; a hunter's knife then ended the 

 fray. At night he was dragged within a large circular wall and skiinied 

 and dissected, when a goodly proportion of the meat, fat, brains, nose, 

 and paunch were quickly devoured. Only the women failed in shar- 

 ing the feast; forbidden because the meat was not cooked. There being 

 no spare oil for fuel for cooking, they were fed on pemmican, which 

 Too-koo-li-too told Hall she disliked as much as he had disrelished 

 wolves' meat on his journey to Ig-loo-lik. 



The Innuits now asked a rest from the journey to hunt more 

 musk-cattle, as the animals would soon scatter. To keep the men in 

 good humor, Ou-e-la and Pa-pa were allowed to go off on the hunt, 

 while Hall pushed forward to Grinnell Lake, on which he encamped 

 on the 22d. The two men met with some success, but Hall remarks 

 that, as usual, ''the greater part of what is killed goes down the 

 paunches of these Innuits, although, before getting leave to hunt, the 

 story always is that they want to get meat for the dogs. As for ''Jack," 

 he is a regular hog ; he eats far more than any two others, and feeds 

 his own dog on the choicest pieces, without a shadow of feeling for 

 others." Hall gave him full swing, so long as he kept his hands off 

 the sledge provisions; these he rigidly rationed out, although he was 

 thus prevented at times even from leaving the sleds, lest some of the 

 party would stuff' themselves from the stores. 



On the 27th, he crossed a branch of Murchison River, and from 

 this point made rapid progress over a level and hard field of snow, yet 

 his company were again disheartened, thinking that if he went on fur- 

 ther, they and the dogs would all starve before they could get back. 

 But Ou-e-la soon found the tracks of a sledge which had evidently 

 crossed Richards' Bay and returned. Despair was then exchanged for 



