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old year went out; the new year came in, and socialism 

 still reigned. I may add that Freuchen has definitely 

 renounced civilization as being unfit for man. He has 

 married an Eskimo girl and has settled down for life 

 at the top of the world among ideal socialists. 



Our dogs raced over a beautiful sledging surface to 

 Cape York in seven hours, where we found three igloos 

 occupied by three very prominent men of the tribe, all 

 valuable assistants to Peary in times past — My-ah, 

 Ahng-ma-lock-to, and Ahng-o-do-blah-o. The last is 

 universally acknowledged to be the greatest hunter in 

 the Smith Sound tribe. We feasted on raw polar bear — 

 delicious! and our dogs were filled to repletion. Hap- 

 piness and contentment reigned in and out of the igloo. 



Three of my dogs, unfit for the long trip, were left at 

 this settlement to await my return. Three more were 

 secured for Tanquary, thus completing his team; he 

 drove them exceptionally well, considering that this was 

 his first experience. 



Kikertak (Salvo Island), a few miles east, was our 

 next stopping-place. Here lived Oo-bloo-ya (Star) and 

 his wife, Ka-sah-do, who illustrates well how an 

 ethnologist, through a misunderstanding of the language, 

 may arrive at a too hasty conclusion. 



Ka-sah-do has had a very trying experience. Some 

 years ago she and her three children were starving. 

 They were so hungry that one of her breasts was almost 

 destroyed by their teeth. She finally resorted to the 

 expedient of slitting the ends of her fingers, thus per- 

 mitting them to suck her blood. To-day the in- 

 jured breast is gone, the other is prominent. The 

 scientist in question, upon seeing the mother seated 

 upon the right of the igloo as one enters, and the child 



