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mos three), " kamutee martluk " (sledges two), were coming; 

 and in a few minutes Nowdingyah, Arrotocbsuah, and Kayu- 

 nah landed with two sledges and five dogs. Arrotocbsuah 



is an old man with 

 gray hair, but looks 

 exactly like a wo- 

 man ; Kayunah is a 

 young man, stutters 

 badly, and while 

 he has a decidedly 

 idiotic appearance 

 he has a fox-like 

 expression about 

 the eyes and nose, 

 and accordingly he 



An-ou.chsuah Fashioning a Spear. j^^^ ^^^^ dubbed 



the " Fox." Nowdingyah is the only one of the Eskimos who 

 has hair on his face, and he has a little mustache and imperial 

 which give to him something of a Japanese touch. 



Sunday, October i8. Mr. Peary has been on the jump 

 all day, getting odds and ends to trade with the natives. 

 He has secured three very fine seal-spears, one walrus-lance 

 — all with fine lines of walrus-hide — an " ikkimer " (soap- 

 stone blubber lamp), a drill, and two dogs and a sledge. 

 The natives left early in the afternoon, the old man being 

 tired, having been obliged to sleep out on the beach on his 

 sledge, with no shelter, as there was no room in Ikwa's 



