160 FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE NORTH [May 



not at all impressive in its frontal face, only rising from 

 the sea ice to a height of thirty or forty feet. The many 

 bergs dotting Peabody Bay evidenced its activity dur- 

 ing the summer months. Soft, deep snow, the result of 

 the last two days' storm, turned us southward toward 

 home. Then we saw our first glaucous gull and heard 

 our first snow-bunting, harbingers of spring and of the 

 long, delightful summer to come. Arklio shot a large 

 seal which furnished us with plenty of meat for our 

 dogs. 



A long, hard pull of eleven hours through soft snow 

 all over Advance Bay and in and out among the islands, 

 looking for bear, seal, and cairns of the Kane Expedi- 

 tion, netted us only two hares and one small seal, which, 

 strange to say, we discovered wallowing through deep 

 snow far from his hole. Where the little fellow thought 

 he was bound, it is hard to say. Ah-now-ka ran ahead 

 and gathered him up in his arms before the leaping, 

 excited dogs could injure him. He cuddled down in his 

 lap as if he had at last found what he was looking for, 

 a good, warm, comfortable place. 



Upon our arrival at Cairn Point, we learned that 

 Hunt and Ak-pood-a-shah-o had returned from the 

 hunting-ground in Ellesmere Land with five bears and 

 fifteen musk-oxen, a very good and profitable trip. On 

 the 21st we were at Borup Lodge again, although com- 

 pelled by open water to cross the land from the Polarises 

 winter quarters to Etah by way of the river valley, a 

 course we took many times during the four years when 

 the conditions by sea were not favorable. 



At Etah we found a spring migration party of nineteen 

 I>eople, who were to proceed seventy-five miles up the 

 coast in a few days to build their homes at Marshall 



