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bears not uncommon, so they had decided to go 

 there. 



We stayed a day at Cape Constitution. It was a 

 merry party that headed back across Peabody Bay. 

 The trip was pleasant, for the weather was fine, the 

 going fairly good, and game abundant. In due time 

 we reached Cape Kent, south of the Humboldt Glacier. 

 We made no camp after reaching land until we got to 

 the mouth of the Mary Minturn River. Here three 

 Eskimo families were encamped on the site of an old 

 Eskimo village, uninhabited so long that none of the 

 tribe could remember when any one had lived there. 

 We stayed there but a day to give our dogs rest, and 

 me an opportunity to make a brief survey of the plants 

 now beginning to bloom on the warm, sheltered ledges 

 where the snow had melted. Apparently during the 

 summer this village is a pleasant place, for the vegetation 

 is luxuriant and the ruins of a number of large Eskimo 

 stone houses attest the fact that many people have 

 lived there at one time. 



But we were eager to get back, so we soon set out 

 again. Stopping only at Rensselaer Harbor, to visit 

 the site of Doctor Kane's expedition, in one march we 

 traveled from this village to Anoritok, where many of 

 our Etah Eskimos were encamped for the summer 

 hunting-season. Jot had been there hunting until only 

 a few days before, and Hal had been up to doctor a 

 sick Eskimo, but they had gone home to Etah ahead 

 of us. We stayed a day at Anoritok, and then started 

 for home. 



It was the last day's march. At Lifeboat Cave, 

 about ten miles from Etah as the crow flies, we went 

 up overland. As we started up it began raining. 



