THE SPRING AWAKENING 335 



and the ice in the sound was breaking up and moving 

 seaward with every tide. 



Early on the morning of June tenth I was awak- 

 ened from sound sleep by a rap on the door. Open- 

 ing, I found Kulutinguah, just returned from his 

 journey south with Dr. Cook. He reported an ex- 

 ceedingly hard trip in both directions, encountering 

 heavy snow below Cape York. I was glad to see 

 him, and particularly so because he brought me 

 twenty-five pounds of tobacco, an especial luxury 

 now, for I had been without any of the weed for sev- 

 eral months. 



During the day five Eskimos with their families 

 arrived from Nockme. Their sledges were heavily 

 laden with tupeks and all of the owners' belongings, 

 and their coming and camp making resembled the 

 arrival of an old-time circus in a country town. 

 They included Sipsu and his family, six in all; Pier- 

 water, four in all; Tukshu, two; Abidinguah, four; 

 with innumerable dogs, which at once set up a pande- 

 monium of howling and fighting. The new arrivals 

 pitched their tupeks close to my camp, and with this 

 large increase in the canine population, to say noth- 

 ing of the people who would be constantly in and 

 out of camp, particularly Sipsu and Tukshu, always 

 noisy, I realized that future rest and sleep was to 

 be uncertain. The Eskimos themselves seemed never 

 to sleep at all. As a further disturbing element they 

 announced that three more families might be ex- 

 pected up from Nockme in a day or so. 



