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his strength. He was curled up with the team in the 

 morning. 



Before we reached the house we met Jot leaving for 

 the North on a seal-hunting trip with old Panikpa. 

 We learned all the news: He had killed a large wolf 

 near our front door, interesting news, considering that 

 a white wolf had not been seen in Greenland for a half- 

 century. Kood-la-tin-a's little girl had been strangled, 

 having playfully hooked her sealskin hood over the up- 

 stander of a sledge. The only child and the only pos- 

 sible one, I knew the mother's heart must be broken. 

 Poo-ad-loo-na and Jacob-shoo-na had been carried away 

 on an ice pan. Jot had built an ice-boat, so novel and 

 so fast that reports of this wonderful production of a 

 white man have become exaggerated with the distance 

 and with the years. As old Ak-kom-mo-ding-wa ex- 

 claimed : 



"It goes like the very devil and doesn't have to be 

 fed!" 



