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every day. With men who are fonder of bread than they 

 are of fish or meat, it is simplest to let them eat up the 

 flour as fast as they like. When it is gone they worry 

 for two or three weeks and then forget all about it. But 

 if they have a little taste every day, they worry every day 

 and every meal because they have less than enough. 



To remove temporarily from his fish supply the burden 

 of all the dogs, and also to deliver me back at Tuktuyak- 

 tok, Harrison and his party left for the coast on January 

 26, and three days later we were welcomed by Ovayuak 

 at Tuktuyaktok. 



