toward the end of school hours, after it had 

 grown dark, while Mrs. Gambell and I were busy 

 with the singing exercise. 



Finally, I made a little hole in the kitchen 

 door, and placed Kannakut bhere to listen. I 

 confided to him what I suspected, and instructed 

 him how to pull the line. The result was that 

 on the second afternoon Kannakut entrapped the 

 shaman, and came in haste to inform me of his 

 success. 



Bidding our pupils remain seated, I hurried to 

 the kitchen. There was a great noise inside the 

 storehouse, at the lean-to door. 



"Aabwook!" I shouted at the hole in the 

 door, using the Eskimo tongue. "The white 

 man's ' charm ' has caught you ! " . . . 



The noise I made brought Mrs. Gambell hurry- 

 ing forth, and after her came all our pupils. 

 Meantime, with Kannakut's assistance, I pin- 

 ioned him securely with the clothes line. While 

 we were thus occupied an alarm had gone forth. 

 As many as a hundred natives came to the 

 schoolhouse. 



Aabwook lay in the snow, still blinking some- 

 what hazily ; four meat-cans had dropped from 

 the pouch of his parA;o, and I improved the occa- 

 sion to relate what he had done to us, and also 

 what the white man's "medicine" had done to 

 him. I bade them all look at him well and ob- 

 serve that he was a sneak-thief and a cheat. 



The men would have laid hands on him if I had 

 given the word; but I said," Let him go home," 



and cast him loose. He sneaked away, followed 

 by the hoots of those of the younger generation. 

 I cannot say what vengeance he may be planning 

 for the future, but he has kept away from the 

 schoolhouse from that day to this. 



After the successful issue of our long struggle 

 with the shamans or medicine-men, school went 

 on smoothly for many months, and we became 

 so much interested in the progress of our pupils 

 that the time passed pleasantly. Several of our 

 boys and girls, particularly Sipsu, Tummasok, 

 "Mozart" and Esanetuk, proved to have good 

 voices ; and as a cabinet organ had been sent us 

 from home, musical exercises now formed a 

 pleasant part of each day's session. 



We had our sports, too. There are two little 

 lakes at no great distance inland from the vil- 

 lage, and both in the autumn and in the spring 

 my wife and I occasionally went with our pupils 

 on skating excursions. During the winter, when 

 the days were clear and calm, or when there 

 was bright moonlight, we sometimes went up 

 to the hills to coast. The great ice hummock 

 which formed along the shore also afforded 

 steep, slippery inclines where there was much 

 merry sliding. 



Later, in the spring and summer, during the 

 school vacation, we attempted several longer 

 excursions into the interior of the island, and 

 ascended the Yellow Hills, whence on either 

 side the ocean can be seen. There are no trees 

 here — nothing but "wild wheat," white-plumed 



