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bed since our arrival at the settlement. I lighted the 

 stoves, made tea, and passed each a cup of it with a 

 biscuit. 



While we were thus engaged, the Eskimos laughing 

 as they talked and ate, and enjoying themselves to 

 the utmost, Tukshu, without warning or hint, went 

 problokto. He fought the others like a demon, and 

 I thought he would surely break through the side of 

 the igloo, but finally, though the Eskimos did their 

 utmost to keep him in, he passed out through the 

 entrance. In the tussle nearly all his clothing was 

 torn off, and in the bitter and intense cold it seemed 

 to me he must certainly freeze. For an hour he 

 wandered around in the snow, while the others 

 watched him through holes they had cut in the igloo's 

 side. Then he was captured and taken into one of 

 the stone habitations. 



After quiet was restored I lay down, but it was 

 a long while before I could get asleep, though when 

 I finally did so I slept soundly for fourteen hours. 

 When I awoke the igloo was in darkness, and all of 

 the Eskimos snoring loudly. I had caught cold, my 

 throat was sore, and I ached in every limb and joint. 

 I roused the others, a consultation was held, and it 

 was decided to continue our search for walrus off- 

 shore, where our hosts of the settlement advised us 

 we should find game a-plenty. 



This program was followed. A few miles over the 

 ice brought us to a lake of open water covered with 

 small pieces of ice, and we were rewarded by seeing 

 walrus rising to the surface now and again to blow. 



