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wooden roller a Poot i in length; strips of reindeer fur being 
wrapped with the hair. These were black and white for aren 
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ornaments were worn on the head, and on the breast they had 
masonic-like aprons, the groundwork of which was of a flaming 
red color, ornamented with glass beads of many colors. The 
Playing the Key-low-tik. 
women thus presented a pleasing contrast with the dark vis- 
ages of the men in the ba ckground ; while their naked infants 
were playing here and there ina mother’s lap, or peering out 
from their nestling place in a hood. 
February and March, 1867, were spent in a journey of more 
than one hundred miles to Ig-loo-lik to procure dogs. He was 
successful in this but suffered much from cold and hunger, and on 
his return to Repulse bay was again, to his bitter disappointment, 
obliged to relinquish his expedition to King William’s Land. 
