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description of the outfit will, however, be found in the following 

 chapter. 



Another serious question to be settled was that of dogs, as 

 several more of our pack had died, and some of those we had 



" KAMALOOK." 



bought were useless. We had to get more and were willing to 

 pay any price for them. 



We began at once to look about us for dogs in the possession 

 of the Eskimos which we knew would stand us in good stead 

 for the ones lost, but we had to pay exorbitant prices for 

 them. For instance, one which we bought from Kanara was 

 paid for with two sacks of flour, 25 Ibs. beans, 6 Ibs. coffee, 

 20 Ibs. dried potatoes, 12 Ibs. cocoa, one shot-gun, 250 rounds of 

 ammunition, and one broken-down tent; and another bought 

 from Uxra with two sacks of flour, one sack of cornmeal, 5 Ibs. 

 coffee, 20 Ibs. dried potatoes, 25 Ibs. sugar, 4 Ibs. prunes, 4 Ibs. 

 malted milk, 200 rounds of cartridges, and one hatchet file. 



The prices, as said above, were exorbitant, but the dogs were 

 good, and, what was more, we needed them. 



Furthermore we hired one dog, Kamalook, but we had a hard 

 fight for it. It was not so much on account of the dog itself 

 as on account of pious considerations. The dog's present 

 owner was Ujarak, but it had belonged to a deceased son, and 

 the old people were afraid that their only remembrance of their 

 son might thus be lost. However, when we promised to be 



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