24 VOYAGE TO THE POLAR SEA. July 



of their existence. In maintaining discipline amongst 

 the weaker sex, punishment is left entirely in the 

 hands, or rather mouth, of the favourite queen, who, 

 except when jealousy may occasionally warp her 

 judgment, uses her prerogative pretty fairly, whilst it 

 frequently happens that the king-dog himself submits 

 without resentment to a snarl from his queen. 



Frederick the Eskimo, who joined us at Lievely to 

 take charge of the dogs, has readily settled down to 

 his work ; his broad, flat, good-humoured face is 

 certainly not handsome, but his character is most 

 excellent, and above all he is unmarried.' 



Early on the morning of the 17th we left Eitenbenk 

 under steam, the ' Discovery ' in tow, bound to the 

 northward through the Waigat Channel ; the ' Valorous ' 

 having parted company a few hours previously pro- 

 ceeding to the coal mines on the west side of the 

 Waigat. After clearing the anchorage the two ships 

 made sail before a southerly wind : crossing the 

 entrance of Svarte Yogel Bay, a large ' loomery ' was 

 sighted on its northern shore. The Waigat Channel 

 was found to be much encumbered by icebergs and 

 broken ice, which were streaming out from the 

 neighbourhood of the Tossukatek Glacier through the 

 fiord north of Arve Prins Island, and driving quickly 

 towards the north-west before a breeze of fair strength. 

 From their dirty unwashed appearance the majority of 

 these icebergs were evidently newly broken off from 

 the glacier, and although the temperature of the water 

 was 40° they had not yet decayed sufficiently to alter 

 their balance. They were extremely rugged in outline, 

 and appeared as if formed of a collection of boulder 



