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lost our way. Fortunately, however, we kept the 

 general direction of land, but when we reached shore 

 and located ourselves found we were far north of 

 camp. We were all but exhausted by this time, but 

 there was nothing to do but keep going, for to re- 

 main inactive would have been to freeze to death in 

 a short time, and by a tremendous effort we at length 

 reached Annootok in safety. 



All night the storm raged, and it was late the fol- 

 lowing afternoon before the wind shifted suddenly 

 to the northward with a falling temperature and the 

 storm abated. But all day we were kept prisoners 

 within the shack and I busied myself sewing small 

 canvas bags in which to carry things on my proposed 

 trip to Ellesmere Land, in making a saucepan out 

 of kerosene tins and in general mending. 



I had just returned from a long walk and vain 

 hunt for hare the next evening when Ilabrado's 

 kooner came rushing over to tell me two sledges were 

 coming down the hill. This was good news, for, 

 isolated as we were, additions to our small circle were 

 welcome, and I went out with her to meet the visitors. 

 They proved to be Eiseeyou with his kooner Anah- 

 way, and Oxpuddyshou with his kooner Arnenier. 

 This was not the same Oxpuddyshou who had been 

 with me all winter, but another man of the same name 

 a younger brother of Kulutinguah. His kooner 

 was one of the best looking Eskimo women I have 

 ever seen. On the two sledges they brought a deer 

 and a half, two fine deerskins, three hareskins which 

 had been removed with head and feet attached, for 



