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department in an efficient manner. My dog, I vowed, 

 I would not feed for a week, seeing that she was ap- 

 parently provisioned for a month. 



Arklio soon arrived with the meat and skin of a cub, 

 reporting that E-took-a-shoo had eaten raw meat rather 

 heartily and had dropped to sleep en route on his sledge 

 and might not be in until to-morrow. I hoped that his 

 dogs would not turn and eat all the meat out from under 

 him. He arrived in about two hours with everything 

 intact, followed by the third Eskimo with nothing but 

 two highly inflamed eyes; in his rush to get away he had 

 forgotten his snow-glasses. On the 16th we started 

 back, swinging well up into Talbot Inlet, which we found 

 to be one of the most striking bits of scenery on the 

 coast. The fiord, some eight miles in length, is bordered 

 by hills at least 1,000 feet in height, intersected with 

 large and many glaciers. A heavy wind and strong drift 

 prevented an extensive survey; what we saw was fairly 

 wild in its appearance. My boys informed me that there 

 were many tales and traditions relating to this very 

 place, for they recognized many points from tales that 

 they had heard as children. One mile from the mouth, 

 a castle-like island rises abruptly out of the sea ice. 

 How I longed to see this in the summer-time! 



At Cape Faraday we stopped our sledge and made a 

 minute examination of every square foot of the shore 

 in hopes of finding the cairn and record left in 1894 by 

 H. G. Bryant, president of the Geographical Society of 

 Philadelphia. He later told me in New York that his 

 record was left on top of the cape, which explains our 

 failure to find it. 



May 18th was memorable, for on that day we heard 

 the note of the first glaucous gull of the season. We 



