412 



Provisions Abundant. 



[June, 1860. 



ming-mung" always unfitted them for anything else than the chase, 



even when they knew it would not be necessary. 



Game was thrown right in their path. 

 The country all the way from King William's 

 Land was full of it; and as Hall wrote 

 these words, and remembered that much 

 small game — as geese, partridges, and mar- 

 mots — had also been seen before reaching 



HORNS OF A MUSK-OX SHOT BY HALL, O 



JUNE 8, 1869. Qape Weynton, he added : "0, that I could 



have met Crozier and his party twenty-one years ago with the facili 

 ties I have had on this journey. I am sure I could have saved the 



whole company. I say it with 

 no egotistical feeling, but with a 

 confidence of what I know of 

 the country." The proof of 

 what he thus says of his own 

 '' facilities " — i. e., the friendli- 

 ness* and aid of the natives as 

 interpreters, guides, and hunt- 

 ers — was afterward found in the 

 summing up of the prizes se- 

 cured on this trip ; for when he 

 arrived at his old encampment 

 on Repulse Bay, the footings 



MlllllliiLili' 



LADLK M AlJi; ] I'.OM THE HORN OF A MUSK-OX BY 

 NEITCHILLE NATIVES. 



(Presented to Hall as to an an-ge-ko by an Innuit 

 mother as pay for ciuing her sick cliilcl.) 



*But, as has been already noted, he had, some time before this date, discovered from the 

 confession of the Neitcbille men that their friendliness to Crozier had soon exhausted itself. They 

 had let him and his parly starve. Hall had sharply rebuked their selfishness, and his last hope of 

 Crozier's living any length of time after his starting from the ships had died out. Bnt it must be 

 remembtrcd that the few Innuits who found Crozier may have been alarmed lest the number of 

 the white men would exhaust their own scanty supplies. Self-preservation may have caused 

 their slipping ofl" in the night. 



