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MY ARCTIC JOURNAL 



reasonableness of a child. Wednesday he said he would start 

 for Netchiolumy, in spite of my protestations, telling me I was 

 childish to suppose he did not know what was best for him ; 

 and not until the doctor told him that there was danger of 

 pneumonia, and that he must take the responsibility if he per- 

 sisted in going, did he reluctantly yield. Thursday night his 

 temperature began to rise again in consequence of over-exer- 

 tion. Friday he still fought against lying down and keeping 

 quiet, and Saturday and Sunday he had a relapse, his fever 

 reaching 102.2, and leaving him weaker than before. I have 

 done nothing but watch over him, and it has kept me busy 

 day and night. 



The weather during the week has been beautiful, and the 

 r- sunshine is appreciated by us more and 



more every day. 



Yesterday, late in the evening, two men 

 were seen coming toward the house from 

 the direction of Cape Cleveland. They 

 proved to be Kyo and Keshu, the Cape 

 York dudes. They said quite a number of 

 people were in a deserted igloo on Herbert 

 Island and would be along by and by. It 

 seems our former visitor, the widow Klayuh, 

 whose husband was drowned while har- 

 pooning an oogzook seal last fall, and who 

 W 'Wfr^ l^^r stopped here with her three children on 

 One of our Visitors. her Way to Cape York to see her dying 



