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of our arrival, but they had found the box of food which we had 

 cached on Cross Island, and so, they said, thinking that it had 

 been forgotten by some one, they had taken it, opened it, and 

 eaten almost all the contents. Of course I told them that it 

 was not right to steal, etc., and old Sachawachick told them 

 the same, with the result that they brought forth what they 



PETERALEGOOK AND HIS BOYS. 



had not yet eaten, and as a peace offering gave me two fox 

 skins. It was rather a queer family. Old Peteralegook him- 

 self had two wives, an old one and a young one, and they 

 seemed to work together in great harmony. He was a kind 

 of chief on the Sakovanuktok, and had a lot of fur in his posses- 

 sion, among others two splendid silver-tipped fox skins, about 

 eighty white foxes, and several polar bear skins. He was 

 going to buy some flour from the steamers, but nothing else, 

 as he belonged to the old school and did not want our food. 

 His sons were strapping young fellows, and as they did all the 

 work, old Peteralegook led a very easy life. The whole family 

 paid us a visit afterwards, and were deeply interested in our 

 outfit, but as the morals of the old fellow were rather slack, 

 we had to keep a sharp look-out on him ; otherwise he 

 or his family would have appropriated whatever they thought 

 was of more use to them than to us. 



The wind had hauled round to the south-west on the 



