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IlaU Af/a'm Sick. 



[June, 1S69. 



guide determiiiud Hall to keej) no s})(H'ial account of courses, but to 

 use carefully the opportunity of getting from him and his driver, Nu- 

 Jcer-zlioo all further information possible as they rode along. The page 

 here reproduced from the note-book of the da}' shows how Hall set 

 down, even when on the rough sleds, what he thus industriousl}' 

 elicited from his Innuit acquaintances. The last two lines of the page 

 are an indication of frequent experiences. 



The sled, though heavily laden, was so well iced by In-noo-poo- 

 zhee-jook that for some distance it ran easily over the soft snow. The 

 thermometer read 28°. By the 28tli of the month, the nineteenth en- 

 campment of the outward journey was again visited, and its cache, 

 made April 17, was opened; Brevoort sled, left at this point, was now 

 also taken up. The Pelly Bay natives were found to be thriving on 

 their recent hunts A day's talk was again held with them on the sub- 

 ject always uppermost in Hall's mind. 



June 3, Hall rested near Dr. Rae's McTavish Hill, the party hav- 

 ing had the comfort of feasting again t>n 

 fresh deer-meat in place of their long-used 

 pemmican, and the discomforts of sleep- 

 ing in a roofless hut, and of seeing when 

 they arose, the heavens thick and gloomy, 

 the snow falling, and a wolf prowling 

 near them. Hall was beginning to pass 

 through a severe sickness of some days, 

 which made him abandon a purpose to 

 direct his course to Point Sieveright, fur- 

 tlicr to the north, on the sea of Ak-koo-lee, 



IlKI.r AM) TAISLKT-COVKKS KdK Till', 

 NOIKS. 



