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was nothing at all" he assured us : some friend of 

 his in Greenland found he could beat his dogs 

 over the head with a heavy hammer, — it stunned 

 them certainly, — but by laying them with their 

 mouths open to the wind, they soon revived, got 

 up, and ran about " a/^ n^Aif." 



We lost no time in giving them a good feed, 

 the first for seven days, yet they did not seem 

 unusually hungry, and soon coiled themselves 

 up to sleep again. Whilst the men and 

 dogs were employed next day in conveying a 

 sledge to the east end of the lake, I walked to 

 Cape Bird to look out for the absent party, 

 but they had not yet returned to Pemmican 

 Rock. 



When vainly endeavouring, with felonious 

 intentions, to climb up a steep cliff to the breed- 

 ing-places of some silvery gulls, I saw and shot 

 a brent goose,*seated upon an accessible ledge, 

 and made a prize of four eggs ; it seems strange 

 that this bird should havfe selected so unusual a 

 breeding-place. Many seals were basking on 

 the ice, and the watercourse by which our 

 sledges ascended a week before to the Long 

 Lake was now a strong and rapid stream. A 

 few reindeer were seen. 



On the 27th I sent three of the men back to 

 the ship, and with Thompson and the dogs went 



