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have had more, but the bodies sank before we could secure 

 them. As we could not proceed up the gulf in the boat, we 

 camped about three miles southeast of Cape Cleveland. The 

 boat was pulled up on a bit of sandy beach, and with the aid 

 of the boat-hooks and a couple of tarpaulins we fixed up a 

 very comfortable boat-tent. 



Thursday, September 24. It was decided last night that 

 Matt and Dr. Cook should set out on foot for " Nowding- 

 yah's," an Eskimo camp of which we had been in search ; so 

 we had coffee early, and by eight o'clock the boys started off 

 with their rifles and some pemmican.^ About ten o'clock 

 the boys came in woefully tired, vowing that they had walked 

 forty miles, and reported finding Nowdingyah's camp, but all 

 four igloos were deserted. Ikwa said that their owners were 

 " pehter-ang-ito" (far away) hunting; these northern Eskimos 

 are in the habit of leaving their settlements, to which they 

 periodically return. 



Friday, September 25. Just before we left camp at eleven 

 o'clock, an amusing incident occurred. Ikwa, who had been 

 skirmishing for the past hour, returned in a jubilant frame of 



1 It may be of interest to my readers to way of preserving meat when whole fami- 



know just what pemmican is. The best Hes drove out on the prairies and hunted 



lean beef is cut in strips and dried until it butifalo. As soon as shot the buffalo was 



can be pulverized, then it is mixed with an skinned and the green skin sewed into a 



equal quantity of beef suet. To this mi.x- bag, into which the meat, after it had been 



ture are added sugar and currants to suit the sun-dried and mixed with the suet, was 



taste, and the whole is heated through packed. As the skin dried and shrunk, it 



until the suet has melted and mixed with compressed the meat, which in this way 



the other ingredients, when it is poured was preserved indefinitely. Pemmican is 



into cans and hermetically sealed. It is not at all unpleasant to the taste, especially 



only a modification of the old-fashioned if eaten with cranberry jam. 



