Mar, 1869. 



Writing on the Sled. 



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chapter, where his own summing up of the results of this journey is 

 quoted. The flying trips made for these last-named talks cost him more 

 than fifty miles of travel. When the sun on the 18th was 14° 30' 

 high he wrote once more in his igloo: ''I find on my return all the 

 rest still in bed ; we now have coffee, pemmican, and bread ; come, 

 balmy sleep ! " 



On the 2 0th, the Return from this point to Repulse Bay began. The 

 party now consisted of fifteen persons and the team of eighteen dogs, 

 Ou-e-la^s having come back to them after a stray, on which it had eaten 

 the murdered babe ; for this act it was not permitted by the natives for 

 some days to do any work. In-nook-poo-z}iee-jook!s tested ability as 





A PAGB FROM OKE OF THE FIFTY-EIGHT NOTE-BOOKS OF THIS JOURNEY ; — WRITTEN ON THE SLED. 



