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of the settlements to the north, and to hunt walrus, 

 while the Roosevelt goes direct to Etah to overhaul 

 machinery and prepare for the ice. 



The Erik got underway soon after, and made the 

 circuit of Wolstenholm Sound, looking for walrus, 

 but without success. There is no ice for them to bask 

 upon. 



At the Saunders Island bird cliffs we then put in 

 two or three hours shooting, securing 130 birds, and 

 returned to North Star Bay. Here, the natives that 

 I wanted were taken on board, and some thirty addi- 

 tional dogs purchased. Before midnight we steamed 

 north for Whale Sound. 



The next morning we were rounding magnificent 

 Cape Parry, into Whale Sound, and steamed eastward 

 along the southern shore to Ittibloo, where I expected 

 to find more of my people. None were there, however, 

 and the Erik turned northward across the Sound to 

 Kamah, where I felt certain to find someone. Six 

 tents were located here beside the brawling summer 

 river, and the men were all away at Cape Cleveland, 

 hunting walrus with one of the whaleboats which I 

 had given them three years before. From the women, 

 I learned that about ten families were up the gulf at 

 Kangerdlooksoah and that vicinity. Telling the na- 

 tives here, as at the other places, to get their things 

 in readiness to come on board when the ship returned, 

 we steamed eastward into Inglefield Gulf. No ice 

 was to be seen here, but there was a most unusual 

 profusion of bergs from the great Heilprin and Mel- 

 ville Glaciers at the head of the Gulf. At times it 

 looked as if there were no thoroughfare among the 



