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regain my sight. I could not imagine how my eyes 

 could ever be normal after such a paroxysm of torture. 

 When finally the pain abated and I could begin to see 

 again, I was about the most thankful mortal that had 

 ever been in the Northland. In a few days my eyes 

 were clear and apparently as strong as ever, but after 

 that experience I never went without colored glasses 

 while out sledging. 



Before my eyes had quite recovered, Peter suddenly 

 decided that he would have to leave for a bear-hunt 

 on Melville Bay and to get some supplies he had cached 

 at Cape Seddon. This trip he had proposed, with the 

 request that I accompany him, a month before, and all 

 through May while I had expected every day to start 

 he had found one reason or another to postpone going. 

 Now when I was unable to get out, he abruptly an- 

 nounced that he and two Eskimos would go at once. 



During his absence Tanquary and I had no little difli- 

 culty subsisting. Our supplies were gone, the Eskimos 

 were short of meat, and we had no dogs to go out hunt- 

 ing. Had not Mene helped us out by killing occasional 

 seal for us at this time, we should repeatedly have been 

 hard pressed for food. Finally Sechmann Rossbach 

 asked us to share the mission station with him, and we 

 accepted his invitation. A few days before Peter re- 

 turned, we moved from his house, taking our belongings 

 with us. Sechmann's wife had arranged one of the 

 largest rooms in the mission very cozily for us, and 

 throughout the rest of our stay at North Star Bay, we 

 were most comfortably situated. 



Peter returned from his bear-hunt about the middle 

 of June. He stayed at his house but a few days, and 

 then, on the plea that he would have to lay in a supply 



