340 Hall's Second Arctic Expedition. [ May, 
Continuing on to the coast near Point Acland, opposite King 
William’s Land, he found another native settlement where a large 
number of articles from the Erebus and Terror were seen. Leav- 
ing most of his party here he started on May 8, with one of the 
tribe as a guide, on a flying visit to King William’s Land, his peo- 
ple insisting on returning to Repulse bay within two weeks. On 
the 11th, Hall encamped on one of the Todd islands off the south- 
eastern extremity of King William’s Land. Searching here for 
human remains no satisfactory result was obtained, but the next 
day, crossing to the mainland near the mouth of the Peffer river, 
and digging through the snow, one unburied skeleton was found, 
“The gale above and the hardness and depth of snow under foot 
debarred further search.” He also searched with no success at 
another point on the southern coast, further eastward. He was 
then obliged to return to his party, and after some interesting con- 
versations with the natives set out on his return journey, having 
thus been only able to touch at two points on the coast of King 
William’s Land and at Todd island, and that too at a season when 
the snow still covered the land. 
On the return journey he was seized with a sudden and serious 
illness, a premonition, no doubt, of the sudden and final attack in 
1871. He reached his old quarters restored to health on June 
20th, his arrival being delayed by the large quantities of game 
found and the frequent musk-ox hunts. When a band of musk 
cattle was discovered and surrounded, “as soon as they perceived 
that the dogs were slipped, they formed into their usual one cir- 
cle of defense, ‘a musk-bull battery of nine solid battering heads 
and twice the number of sharpened horns? The dogs were 
quickly at these heads, barking and jumping back and forward, 
while the hunters made no haste to advance, for they knew that 
the bulls would stand their ground all day if no other enemies 
came. 
“* After a few minutes’ watch of the movements of dog versus 
bull and bull versus dog,’ the old hunter, /n-nook-poo-zhee-jook, 
went forward to within twelve feet of a large bull, carrying a lance 
which had a line attached by which he could draw it back; but 
at his second throw the wounded and infuriated bull made a fear- 
ful forward plunge, from the effects of which the hunter and his 
companions escaped only by a very timely jump to the left. The 
bull was soon again brought to bay. Ovw-e-/a then pulled trig- 
ger on another noble bull of the circle of defense, and Pa-pa 
