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an Eskimo purchase by chipping a hole in the ice and 

 reeving in a rope of rawhide, four of us pulled the large 

 walrus, which weighed at least 1,000 pounds, up out 

 of the water and onto the surface of the ice. While 

 Ak-pood-a-shah-o was engaged in cutting up the large 

 walrus, the two women dissected the small one with 

 two pocket-knives, the babies peeping over their shoul- 

 ders, as much interested in the job as their mothers. 

 One's education begins at an early age in that country. 



Loaded to the rail with bloody red meat, we hoisted 

 sail and squared away for home, landing at our camp 

 on Sunrise Point. In the evening a narwhal was capt- 

 ured measuring thirteen feet ten inches in length. A 

 baby narwhal, one foot in length, found in the uterus, 

 was of much interest to me and to the Eskimos. 



The summer activities may be summed up by the 

 following quotation from my field journal: 



August 7th, Saturday, Pandora Harbor. — We arrived here at 

 five o'clock, having left Etah last evening. Jot and I have with us 

 two Eskimos, Ak-pood-a-shah-o and Ah-now-ka. Taking every 

 advantage of the good weather, we headed straight for Cape Alexan- 

 der in our twenty-one-foot sailing-dory. A failure of wind, however, 

 compelled us to land here for the night. 



When Ak-pood-a-shah-o was engaged in stalking a seal for break- 

 fast a search was made along shore for old igloos, two of which 

 were found, one the largest I have ever seen. 



CUmbing to the summit of Cape Kendrick, which was beautifully 

 molded many centuries ago by glaciers spreading outward from the 

 Greenland ice-cap over the headlands and dropping into the sea, a 

 long and diligent search was made for a possible record and cairn 

 left by the oflBcers or crew of the Pandora, which ship anchored here 

 for a few days in the summer of 1876. At length a large, substantial 

 cairn was discovered. Stone by stone it was pulled apart without 

 disclosing the least trace of a record. 



Two or three other mounds of rocks led me to a closer examina- 

 tion. To my delight, they were the best constructed stone fox- 

 traps I have ever seen. At least ten could be counted from one 



