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Glacier Valley to hunt reindeer and to bring the cached veni- 

 son down to the edge of the ice, where Ikwa will call for it 

 in a few days and bring it back on the sledge. The bo\-s 

 will then proceed to the head of the bay, and under Dr. Cook's 

 direction build a stone igloo for the use of the inland ice party 

 next spring. About three o'clock Matt returned for a tin of 

 biscuits which had been forgotten, and informed us that Ver- 

 hoeff had frozen his nose and face severely, and that Astrup's 

 cheeks had also been nipped. The temperature was-io°, 

 and a fresh southeaster was blowing across the bay. Ikwa and 

 Mane came in this afternoon and added quite a number of 

 words to our Eskimo vocabulary ; the former also gave us an 

 account of the murder of his father by tatooed natives while 

 out after bear off Saunders Island. 



Saturday, October 31. Ikwa started this morning with the 

 sledge and dogs for Arrotochsuah's igloo, where he expects 

 to get a load of hay. About 2 P. M., while we were out, Mr. 

 Peary shoveling snow against the wall, we saw a dark object 

 on the ice, and with the aid of the glass made out a sledge 

 and two people, but they did not seem to get any nearer, and 

 in a short time disappeared. About six they arrived — Annow- 

 kah, his wife M'gipsu, and an awful-looking baby of about 

 two months. They came from Nerki, a place beyond Arro- 

 tochsuah's, two days' journey from Redcliffe. They are cleaner 

 and more intelligent-looking than any natives we have yet 

 seen. In conversation we discovered that they Avere the most 

 northerly family of Greenland, and consequently of the globe. 



