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found that she had spoken the truth and not exaggerated it 

 either. I went down to the village, looked through the houses, 

 and took what food I found belonging to us. Tullik had got 

 most as usual, and, as usual, she was loudest in her remon- 

 strances, told me that she did not steal, that she had thought it 

 was a present from me, etc., but nevertheless she kept some 



ESKIMO TENT AND CACHE ON FLAXMAN ISLAND. 



small articles which had been stowed away underneath some 

 furs, and was very angry when I took them away as well. I 

 felt authorized to act as I did, for the natives were perfectly 

 well aware that Carrol could not give the food away, and that 

 consequently they were doing wrong in accepting it. 



Storkersen's foot was rapidly getting better, and the danger 

 of inflammation was past. Dr. Howe thought that it would not 

 be necessary to amputate the toe, the bone of which was smashed 

 entirely, but he thought that it would grow together in the course 

 of time, and he cheered me much by saying that if nothing un- 

 foreseen happened, Storkersen would be able to do his work in 

 a few weeks, and that it would not be necessary for him to go 

 home. My sounding trip to the east had to be given up, but if 

 he could only stay and get well enough to go out on the ice next 

 spring the chief object would be attained. 



