XIII 



BACK OVER THE GLACIERS 



TEDDYLINGUAH and I had everything 

 ready for the start northward, when sud- 

 denly Inute, a young man of about Teddy- 

 linguah's age, Eiseeyou and his kooner, Anahway, 

 Oxpuddinguah and his kooner, Ishyatah, with their 

 two children, decided that they would join us. Very 

 hurriedly their komatiks were loaded and their dogs 

 harnessed while we waited. Oxpuddinguah's and 

 Ishyatah's younger child, a baby, was carried in a 

 hood on the mother's back, while the other youngster, 

 a little girl three years of age, was lashed securely 

 upon the sledge like a piece of baggage. 



When our komatiks were finally broken loose the 

 moonlight was very dim, but an exceedingly bright 

 aurora illumined sky and ice-bound sea and land, and 

 in the southeast was a mere suggestion of karman. 1 



The dogs were well fed and in fine shape. Ted- 

 dylinguah had eleven big black fellows, fast and keen 

 for work, Eiseeyou and Oxpuddinguah each had ten, 

 and Inute seven. The ice was fine and we sped 

 northward at a rapid pace until the foot of Clements 

 Markham Glacier was reached, the south side of the 



i Eskimo word for light this was the coming dawn of the long day. 



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