FROM NEW YORK TO ETAH 29 



Up to this time, the weather, since arriving at Cape 

 York, has been an uninterrupted sequence of calm 

 and continuous sunhght — typical Arctic summer 

 weather. Now, however, wind and fog have their 

 turn, and render it impossible to secure walrus, wasting 

 the day for us. 



In the evening we steamed back to Karnah, to take 

 on board the natives there, and be in readiness to at- 

 tempt the walrus again the following day. By mid- 

 night this work was completed, and as everyone was 

 now dead-tired and sleepy, the Erik steamed out into 

 the middle of the Sound to drift until after breakfast 

 of the following day, when we again steamed out to 

 the walrus grounds and by nine o'clock that night 

 had secured eighteen of the animals. Fog and rain 

 were now coming in upon us, and we steamed into the 

 last settlement on our list, Igludiahni, where six tupiks 

 were found. Our stay here was short as I wanted 

 but one family here, and it did not take me long to 

 purchase a number of additional dogs. When the 

 last dog was on board the Erik, she headed for Cape 

 Chalon on her way to rejoin the Roosevelt at Etah, 

 where she arrived at breakfast time Sunday, the 13th. 

 The Roosevelt had landed her coal in bags and broken 

 out the supplies for the purpose of restowing to give 

 her the proper trim to enter the ice. 



It being Sunday, everyone enjoyed a much needed 

 rest, except the Eskimos, to whom the work of skinning 

 and cutting up the walrus was a labour of love and 

 pleasure. 



Early Monday morning the Erik veered along- 

 side the Roosevelt and, at five o'clock, the work of 



