THE UNFORTUNATE MIRANDA 



sea. For several mornings we got up at five o'clock, and 

 each taking an Eskimo guide went his way to hunt the 

 reindeer which are said to inhabit these regions. But not 

 a deer was sighted. Though we got no deer, we caught 



ESKIMO AT PLAY 



quantities of salmon and salmon trout in the stream that 

 ran by our camp, which was simply teeming with fish. 

 But I must refrain from mention of the large numbers of 

 fish we captured; people in our own well-fished regions 

 would never believe the exploits that I could tell; suffice 

 it to say that when we started back for the Miranda we 

 carried to our comrades two hundred pounds of salmon. 

 When we reached the ship we found that the glacier 

 party had returned, but Dr. Cook and his party had not 

 yet been heard from. The glacier explorers had been 

 caught in the same storm that overtook us, and had much 

 the same experience, being confined to their camp by the 

 fury of the elements. When the storm abated, they had 

 explored and measured several glaciers in the vicinity of 

 the camp, which was pitched close by a little Eskimo settle- 

 ment. In front of the camp ran a brook, in which the 

 explorers performed their ablutions. The Eskimo would 

 gather to watch them go through these strange perform- 

 ances. The process of brushing the teeth filled them with 

 unbounded wonder, and when one of the party removed 



