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come and live with them, a new distribution was decided 

 on. The officers and crew were divided into four parties, 

 one of which remained at Noonamoo, while the others were 

 conducted by the natives to three other villages along the 

 coast, within a radius of twenty miles. William Grace, a 

 member of one of the parties who migrated to another vil- 

 lage, describes his reception, and some of his subsequent 

 experiences, as follows : 



" After much difficulty in getting over the snow, we ar- 

 rived at Ak-kun-neer at night, December 10th, cold, hungry, 

 and exhausted. On stopping at the entrance of the hut, our 

 conductor would not allow us to go in, but shouted in a loud 

 voice, ' Atkeen' (no good). He then said to some one inside 

 the hut, ' Wild wiki pennena' (give me a lighted stick), and 

 a woman came out with a lighted stick in her hand. The 

 man seized it and shook it in our faces, over our clothes and 

 the sledge, and then exclaimed ' Namaikee ' (good). We 

 were then permitted to enter, and were stripped of all our 

 clothing in the outer compartment of the hut. On coming 

 into the interior, we were given some frozen walrus meat, a 

 few roots, somewhat resembling parsnips, and also a small 

 piece of frozen, rotten seal flesh. 



"After eating, I was surrounded by a group of natives, 

 who came into the hut to see the white man. They exam- 

 ined my body, feet, and hands, and also every portion of my 

 clothing, which was hanging up. The woman of the hut put 

 an amulet made of seal-gut, with a large bead at the end, 

 around my wrist. When I made signs as to its meaning, 

 they replied, ' Namaikee ' (no die). I slept on the ground 

 that night, with a deerskin under me and over me. The 

 vermin which covered my body and covering prevented my 

 sleeping all night." 



Near the close of the year Lieutenant Berry, leaving Master 

 Waring in command, started with the only remaining team 

 of dogs to visit Putnam's camp. At this time the upper 

 limb of the sun was seen above the horizon for only two 



