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MY ARCTIC JOURNAL 



perfect confidence in Mr. Peary, and say they would go any- 

 where with him, even on the ice-cap, because they do not 

 beHeve he would let the evil spirit harm them. 



Mr. Peary has decided to start on a trip up Inglefield Gulf 

 to-morrow. His purpose is to verify some of the observations 



made by us on our 

 April sledge trip, to 

 take photographs of 

 the landscape in its 

 summer dress, and to 

 secure ethnological 

 specimens at Karnah 

 and Nunatochsoah 

 that were promised 

 us by the natives of 

 those places. We ex- 

 pect to return within 

 a week, and then 

 everything will be 

 put on board the 

 good ship " Kite," 

 and we shall bid adieu to our Arctic home and the dear old 

 huskies, who, even if they are not particularly clean, have 

 been our faithful friends, and will, I am sure, never forget us. 



Astrup's Musk-lamb. 



