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dinner, and supper. He kept a boiled saddle-of-bear on a shelf in 

 the after-cabin, and this he repaired to every now and then, and 

 gnawed at it. He seemed to like his fare very much, in spite of 

 its extremely unappetizing and anything but cleanly appearance. 

 Kolotengva procured himself these delicacies through the agency 

 of a very poor weapon, according to our notions, namely, an old 

 American muzzle-loader, of large calibre. But, in his eyes, it was 

 the finest gun in the world if only he had enough caps, balls, 



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and powder for it ; and of things of the kind he was given plenty 

 when he returned with Baumann and Hassel from a visit to 

 Peary, who was invited to spend Easter on the " Fram." 



' Everybody grew fond of the light-hearted and good-humoured 

 Eskimo, and absolutely vied with one another in giving him all 

 sorts of things which might be of use in his hard struggle for 

 existence, when he left us on March 25 with a lowing " Trur it 

 dss ! Trur it dse ! " as a farewell. He had learned the words on 

 board, and probably thought that they were our expression for the 



