310 FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE NORTH [July ' 



Passed around Cape Alexander unseen by the Devil League of the 

 Arctic regions. On the south side I secured three clutches of eggs 

 of the glaucous gull. 



At the island (Sutherland) we found hundreds of eider ducks on 

 and off their nests, and also noted nineteen brant flying back and 

 forth. Within a very short time we collected about a thousand 

 eggs, including eleven of the brant. All nests containing four and 

 over I left untouched, knowing that at this date they were too much 

 incubated to be relished. 



It began to rain when we were on the island, and continued inter- 

 mittently for the next six days. 



When in camp at Sulwuddy the boys hinted that they would 

 hke to go to Nerky to see the Eskimos, which I decided to do as 

 soon as weather would permit. 



Some of the party spent their time digging about the old igloos 

 for ethnological specimens, while the others hunted for seals, of which 

 Arklio shot two. 



Rowing along shore to Nerky, we noted an unusually large num- 

 ber of hare so close to the ice-foot that we shot repeatedly from 

 the boat, getting three. Drift ice west of Nerky caused us to de- 

 viate considerably from our course. Finally, we worked in toward 

 the settlement without being heard or seen by the Eskimos. Enter- 

 ing a fine big tupik, with some difficulty I at last recognized the 

 sleeping man and woman as Kood-look-to and Ah-nay-doo-a. It 

 took them some time to reahze who I w^as and how I got there. 

 Within a few minutes all in the village were up and out. 



There were five tupiks in all — Kood-look-to and wife; Ah-we- 

 gee-a and wife; Kla-shing-wa and wife; Ah-pellah and wife; and 

 In-you-ta with bachelor apartments, one of my old igloo linings. 

 Toi-tee-a and wife, who left Etah a few days ahead of us by way of 

 the ice-cap, were blocked here by open water. As he could reach 

 his home only with considerable difficulty, I offered him our boat, 

 in which the Eskimos could row him to Ig-loo-da-houny. They 

 started at once, returning the night of the 30th, working slowly 

 through a large field of drift ice. 



On July 1st we left for home, accompanied by Kood-look-to, 

 Kla-shing-wa, In-you-ta, and Ah-pellah, the last named intending to 

 go only as far as Peteravik, the others to Sutherland Island for eggs. 



Some five miles west of Cape Chalon, E-took-a-shoo harpooned a 

 young ook-jook (bearded seal). Walrus were seen several times, 

 one of which Kood-look-to tried to harpoon but failed, attempting 

 to throw at too great a distance. Just off Sulwuddy a single one 

 came to the surface, which E-took-a-shoo harpooned very prettily. 



