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make sail from Kescue Harbor where the vessel had lain so 

 long. 



Another island (Look-out Island) I found wholly destitute of 

 snow, and vegetation was quite luxuriant upon it. Grasses and 

 flowers looked truly beautiful when contrasted with the bay and 

 snow-covered mountains around. 



On the 7th of July we were visited by the first musquitoes of 

 the season ; and, from the torment they gave me, I was strongly 

 reminded of my sufferings at Holsteinborg the previous year, and 

 also had a taste of what would probably come. 



Another arrival this day was Ugarng and his wives. He was 

 loaded with the spoils of a successful reindeer hunt, and, in addi- 

 tion, had killed a white whale in Cornelius Grinnell Bay. He and 

 several more Innuits went off to the whale depot to see what pros- 

 pects existed there for hunting or fishing, but he did not remain 

 long. Upon his return he determined to revisit the place Be had 

 lately left. 



Ugarng had great influence among his people, and I have often 

 thought he was not a man to be wholly trusted. Indeed, I some- 

 times felt that nothing ever done for him would cause a grateful 

 return. He was a bold, successful, and experienced hunter, and, 

 as such, was frequently engaged by the whalers he encountered ; 

 but little dependence could be placed upon him. The strongest 

 agreement would be instantly set at naught whenever he saw any 

 thing more likely to conduce to his own interest. 



In the present case Ugarng was using all his powers of persua- . 

 sion to induce every Innuit to leave our locality and go with him. 

 What his real motive was I can not say ; but it is probable that 

 now, when there was abundance to be had by hunting and seal- 

 ing, he — who disliked the restraints of civilization — wanted to go 

 farther away, and to take along all his friends, relatives, and ac- 

 quaintances, so as to be perfectly and absolutely free. He tried 

 every means to induce Ebierbing and Tookoolito to go with him, 

 and for a time there was some hesitation on their part about it ; 

 but their attachment to me prevailed, and neither of them would 

 consent to go. A general migration, however, did take place. 

 Many of the Innuits accompanied Ugarng ; and I afterward heard 

 that several others, as Annawa, Artarkparu, and all belonging and 

 known to them, went away about the same time from the whaling 

 depot (where a few of the ships' crews still remained to look for 

 whales), taking their course up Frobisher Bay. 



Ugarng's party consisted of his two wives, Kunniu and Punnie ; 



