440 HUNTING WITH THE ESKIMOS 



centuated by a thick fog settling in the valley. When 

 shore was finally gained every one was asleep on 

 board and no effort seemed sufficient to rouse them. 

 We fired guns, and shouted until our throats were 

 sore, but all to no purpose. We were without a boat 

 to take us aboard, and for four hours tramped up 

 and down the shore to keep warm, until some one at 

 length heard us and a boat came to our relief. 



This was some thirty miles from the mouth of the 

 Clyde. With apparently neither hunting nor fish- 

 ing to be had, sail was hoisted at midday on Septem- 

 ber fourth and we turned toward the open sea. Near 

 sunset while passing a bay two streams of smoke were 

 discovered well up the bay towards its head. This 

 was the first indication of an inhabited settlement 

 that had been seen since our arrival on the coast, and 

 the Jeanie's course was at once changed, to investi- 

 gate the origin of the smoke. Presently two tupeks 

 and three Eskimos were made out. A whale-boat was 

 launched and Captain Bartlett, Mr. Royal K. Fuller 

 (Mr. Fuller was a representative of a New York 

 newspaper, a passenger on the Jeanie) and myself 

 went ashore, where we were greeted by an Eskimo 

 named Kidlobber, who with his family occupied the 

 tupeks. A fire kindled with moss and old skins had 

 been lighted to create a smoke and draw our atten- 

 tion. There were no other Eskimos here, and Kid- 

 lobber informed us that while hunting alone four 

 days before he had killed three bears, which, he as- 

 sured us, were plentiful in the region. I offered 

 him an old Springfield rifle in exchange for the three 



