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to inspect a monument of which Ou-e-la had more than once spoken 

 as having been built by white men since Dr. Rae's visit of 1854. Of 

 liis sudden and serious attack, he afterward wrote : "It seems alias 

 a dream. I found myself on a deer-skin within the roofless circle 

 snow-wall of our kom-mong, surrounded by my attentive men, all wear- 

 ing an anxious look, until a large dose of the essence of peppermint 

 restored me at a time when I had thought the very life was fast 

 ebbing." This, it may be added, was not his only experience on 

 this expedition of a sudden and unaccountable illness : premonitions 

 of the sudden and final attack of 1871. 



Just before reaching Cape Weynton, Pa-pa shot a "mother-deer," 

 which fled, leaving the fawn to have its life " footed out " ; the Innuit 

 pressing down one foot heavily over the young heart. At the Cape, a 

 cache of presents was left for See-pung-er, in return for his help in lay- 

 ing up blubber and meat during the winter of 1867—68; and then 

 Hall bade a final farewell to the point which now he had three times 

 visited. 



From this date the chief remaining items of interest which are 

 noted in the jottings on this sledge travel through the warm month of 

 June are to be found in the repeated and successful hunts of the 

 musk-ox. From the 6th until the 13tli of the month slow advances 

 were made, for it was but hunt after hunt. As many as fifty musk- 

 cattle were at one time seen in bands on the hill-sides. In one 

 battle twenty-one were slain. Hall killing three with two balls, which 

 were found lodged in the third, and Hannah herself killing four young 

 ones. Hall wrote : " My tvorJc has been severe and protracted, and I 

 need relaxation : therefore, I go in for the hunt." Nor could he have 

 restrained his Eskimo party, if he had desired it, for the cry of "Oo- 



