CHAPTER III. 



WINTER QUARTERS. 



Flaxman Island Eskimos Preparations for the Winter A Hunting 

 Excursion Winter coming First Sledging Heavy Gales More 

 Natives arrive at Winter Quarters Start with Sledges for Herschel 

 Island Dr. Howe returns Sledge trip on the Koogoora River Life 

 in an Eskimo House Dr. Howe goes to the West Natives Kill many 

 Bears Mr. Leffingwell returns Dr. Howe returns Christmas- 

 Christmas Party for the Natives Start for Ned's Cabin. 



A BUSY time followed our arrival on Flaxman Island. We 

 had to take provisions ashore, pile up coal, deposit powder and 



SACHAWACHICK OUTSIDE HIS IGLOO IN SUMMERTIME. AN ESKIMO HOUSE. 



dynamite in a safe place at some distance from the shore, 

 unbend and stow away the sails, while Mr. Leffingwell was 

 engaged in starting the meteorological observations, getting a 

 tide staff rigged up, and making an astronomical observatory 

 out of old boxes. 



Now and then we took a stroll round our island to see what 

 interest it offered. Towards the extreme east we had seen 

 some Eskimo houses and had been to visit them. Only one 

 family had arrived, a young couple, Uxra and Tullik, with their 

 adopted daughter, a small girl of six or eight months. 



