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found her and went aboard and built a big wood fire 

 on the cabin floor to get warm, whereupon the ship burned 

 up. What a loss that was and how valuable the wood 

 would have been to us to-day!" In this bay we found 

 two cairns inclosing the records found by the Eskimos 

 the year before, one left by Bonsall and the other by 

 Doctor Kane himself. 



Our experience here with seals soon convinced me that 

 Arklio was a crack shot behind the little screened sledge, 

 by far the better hunter of the two boys, and one upon 

 whom we could depend to feed our dogs for the re- 

 mainder of the trip. He killed three seals in a few hours, 

 while Ah-now-ka wounded four and lost them all. It 

 was very amusing to see him rush toward one wounded 

 seal disappearing into his hole in the ice, grab his hind 

 flipper in his teeth, and with his two hands struggle 

 violently to pull him back, at the same time trying to 

 attract our attention by yelling to us with his mouth 

 full of flipper. Finally, exhausted, he was obliged to 

 let the seal go. 



Another search of Bancroft Bay on the 11th failed 

 to find any evidence whatever of the Doctor Kane party. 

 Just at the entrance, however, carved upon the vertical 

 face of a rock, I was thrilled to discover a large letter 

 "K" cut with the sharp point of some kind of an 

 instrument. Undoubtedly, sixty-two years before. Doc- 

 tor Kane had carved this permanent record and had also 

 built the demolished cairn a few feet from it. But the 

 contents of the latter were now gone. 



Thursday, May 13th, was a wi-etched day, raining 

 and snowing as we awoke. In hopes of a bear, we packed 

 up and plodded on, crossing the many bays and in- 

 dentations from point to point until we discovered a 



