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Taking the dogs with me and leaving the musk- 

 ox, I went on to the place selected for a camp. Oob- 

 loyah and Koolatoonah were just finishing cutting 

 up the fifth musk-ox, and were immediately sent 

 off with a sledge and team of dogs, to help Egingwah 

 with the two big bulls. 



When they were gone, I set up the tent myself 

 and began to prepare the tea for our supper. As 

 soon as the voices of the Eskimos were audible in 

 the distance, I put on the musk-ox steaks to broil 

 and in a few minutes we were enjoying the reward 

 of our labor. Surely this was living on the fat of the 

 land indeed, deer steak the second night, bear steak 

 last night, to-night the luscious meat of the musk-ox! 



In the morning we continued our course, and dur- 

 ing the day three more musk-oxen were gathered in, 

 the meat being cached as before. That night we 

 camped at the head of the hitherto unexplored inlet, 

 and I had the satisfaction of knowing that one more 

 stretch of previously unknown territory had been 

 added to the world's map. 



Next day we started north along the west side of 

 the inlet. We had been traveling for hours and were 

 just looking for a suitable place to camp, being then 

 at the foot of a steep bluff some fifty feet in height, 

 when suddenly the dogs made a break for the shore 

 and attempted to climb the bluff. Of course they 

 could not do this on account of the sledges; but we 

 knew what their wild action meant — more musk- 

 oxen. 



In a moment Egingwah and I, with rifles in our 

 hands, were climbing the bluff. Peering over the top 



