CHAPTER XXn. 



SPRING TWILIGHT. — ARRIVAL OF ESQUIMAUX. — OBTAINING DOGS. — KALUT0- 

 NAH, TATTARAT, MYOUK, AMALATOK AND HIS SON. — AN ARCTIC HOSPI- 

 TAL. — ESQUIMAU GRATITUDE. 



My time became now fully occupied with prepara- 

 tions for my journey northward. The sun appearing 

 on the 18th, as recorded in the last chapter, rose com- 

 pletely above the horizon on the next day, was some- 

 thing higher the day following, and, continuing to 

 ascend in steady progression, we had soon several 

 hours of broad daylight before and after noon, al- 

 though the sun did not for some time come in sight 

 above the hills on the south side of the harbor. The 

 long dreary night was passing away; we had with 

 each succeeding day an increase of light, and the 

 spring twilight was merging slowly into the continual 

 sunshine of the summer, as we had before seen the 

 autumn twilight pass into the continued darkness of 

 the winter. 



The details of my preparations for traveling would 

 have little interest to the reader, and I pass them 

 over. It is proper, however, that I should recur to 

 the situation in which I found myself, now that the 

 traveling season had opened. 



The dogs, five in number, which Hans brought back 

 from the southern journey, had recovered, and did not 

 appear to have been materially injured ; but there 

 were not enough of them to furnish a serviceable 



