OO-KOO-SUK — INNUIT STONE POT. 



408 Belies at Inglis Bmj. [mot, i869. 



four, which was to include In-)iook-poo-zhee-jook, had settled a bargain 

 with Eek-elwo-ar-clioo (Jerry) for a return to Repulse Bay. Hall's 

 provision stores liad l)een used, as onl}' four seals were caught; but 

 enough remained for a liopeful supply until on the homeward jour- 

 ney the luiuTs would be resumed. The loads on tlie sleds would 



be increased by the 

 family which would 

 go, and additionally 

 by the relics Hall 

 would take, to which 

 he found would be 

 added such articles as a stone lamp and stone pots and kettles, bar- 

 gained for by each of the women to take home. He wonders whether 

 some one would not liave purchased a dead elephant to take along if 

 it had been the country of elephants. 



One of the native women of the igloo village had given birth to a 

 large, healthy babe, which the mother, on finding that it was not a 

 male, had destroyed by throwing it away. 



Still holding back his men, Hall now went off with the same two 

 companions that had gone over to Todd's Island, determined to learn 

 more of the dead men, and especially to find the natives who last saw 

 Crozier and his party. Arriving at the place on Inglis Bay where, 

 on his journey out, he had made a deposit, he again found relics in 

 abundance, among which were a piece of a mast 14 feet in lengtli, and 

 oak and jjine blocks, besides a part of a boat; these he placed upon 

 the sledge. In long talks with the natives he learned interesting news 

 of their last meeting with Ag-loo-ka, the substance of which, further 

 noted in lull in his little journals, will be found at the close of this 



