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 AN ESKIMO MOTHER AND BABE 



and the entire region was unrecognizable. 

 Where on the outward journey had been 

 narrow cracks, there were now broad 

 leads, one of them over five miles in 

 width, caught over with young ice. 

 Here again fortune favored us, and 



no pronounced movement of the ice hav- 

 ing taken place since the Captain passed 

 we had his trail to follow. We picked 

 up the old trail again north of the seventh 

 igloos, followed it beyond the fifth, and 

 at the big lead lost it finally. 



