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time was devoted to assiduous hunting, in order to secure a suppl}" of 

 meat for the winter in the conting-ency of no ship arriving. 



On the 5th of August the new Wlndvxird sent north by the ckib, 

 and bringing to me Mrs. Peary and my little girl, steamed into the 

 harbor. As soon as people and supplies could be hurried aboard her, 

 she steamed across the sound to the Greenland side. Here my faith- 

 ful Eskimos were landed, and after devoting a week or so to the work 

 of securing sufficient walrus to carry them in comfort through the 

 winter, the Whidward steamed southward, and after an uneventful 

 voyage arrived at Sydne}^ C. B., on the ITth of September, where I 

 had the pleasure of meeting Secretar}^ Bridgman of the club, and for- 

 warding through him a brief report of my movements during the past 

 year. 



