May, J 869.] IIoll Compelled to Return. 407 



Hall reproved these men sharply for leaving Crozier. Does it 

 not, however, seem probable that these few natives feared that Crozier's 

 large party would starve them out. 



The final Return Journey was now begun. The natives who had 

 gone over with him to the islands were as anxious to get back imme- 

 diately to their people as had been Ou-e-la, and even his own two 

 fi-iends, Ebierbing and Too-koo-li-too, to be safe at Repulse Bay. 

 Hall, therefore, was forced to give up a journey which he had con- 

 templated at least as far as Terror Bay, on the west side of King 

 William's Land. It was the place where "the tent was once found, 

 the floor of which was completely covered with the remains of white 

 men." But it was now urged upon him that it would be time spent in 

 vain even t@ cross over to Point Richardson to seek the place of the 

 boat found by the Innuits soon after Ag-loo-ka's party were seen just 

 above Cape Herschel, for the land there was so low and so deeply 

 covered with snow it would be impossible to tell sea from land ; 

 Nu-her-zlioo (Jack) said that unless they started back to Repulse 

 Bay within four days, the snow and ice would be off the sea of 

 Ak-koo-lee and they would have very great trouble. 



On the 16th, Hall had returned to his twenty-seventh encamj^ment 

 of the outward journey, where he had left nearly all the party who had 

 come out with him from Repulse Bay. All the way back he was regret- 

 ting that he could not search for a cairn of which his guide had been 

 talking at his side on the sledge. He was sorry on his arrival to find 

 that the natives with whom he had first met at this encampment were 

 absent sealing ; Too-koo-li-too, however, had rejoiced at their going, as 

 they had become on Hall's departure bold and threatening. A family of 



