CONTENTS. 



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CHAPTER X. 



Remarkable Echo. — Visit of " Sampson." — Innuit Mode of Washing the Face. — 

 "Job's Comforters." — "Bridge of Sighs." — Mothers nursing their Children. — 

 Serviceable Hoods. — Tails of Innuit Dresses. — Cold in Winter endurable. — Ex- 

 traordinary mild Weather. — Igloos in Ruins. — Kelp used for Food.- — Christmas 

 and New Year's Day. — Sick Nukertou. — Inattention to the Infirm and Dying. — 

 Cruel Abandonment. — Innuit Superstitions. — Author's lonely Watch. — Death of 

 Nukertou. — The female Angeko. — Kooperarchu's Death. — Reflections. — Innuit 

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CHAPTER XI. 



A January Sledge Excursion to Cornelius Grinnell Bay. — Rough Traveling overland. 

 — High Cliffs. — Descent of the Sledge on to the frozen Sea. — Camp on the Ice. — 

 First Night in an Igloo. — Proceed on the Journey. — Dangerous Traveling. — 

 Second Night on the Ice. — Detention. — Cold.— An icy Beard. — Hair-cutting. — 

 A Storm. — Disruption of the Ice. — Fearful Peril.— Cessation of the Gale. — Con- 

 tinue the Journey. — Ice on the Move in every Direction. — Deep Snow. — Treach- 

 erous Footing. — Laborious Work — Arrive at Rogers's Island. — Great Thirst. — In- 

 nuit Welcome. — A Cup of Water. — Hospitality. — Light, Warmth, and Food. — 

 Night's Rest. — Disappearance of the Ice. — Remarkable Preservation. — Frostbites. 

 — A serviceable pocket Mirror. — Bad Weather. — Whaleskin eaten as Food. — 

 Attempted Return to the Ship. — Author's weak State. — Innuit Seal-hunting. — 

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CHAPTER XII. 



Writing under Difficulties. — No Fire or Lamp. — Only two Inches of Black Skin for 

 Food. — Ravenous Hunger of the Dogs. — Relief obtained. — Ebierbing's Return. — 

 A Seal captured. — Supplies from the Ship. — Grand Feast of raw Meat. — Hunger 

 needs no Sauce. — Great Consumption of Food at a time. — Old Ookijoxy Ninoo's 

 Dream. — An Innuit Mark of a Seal-hole. — Tobacco-juice useful. — Watching for 

 the Seal. — Innuit Endurance of Cold. — Eating frozen Seal's Entrails. — Mode of 

 cooking and partaking of Innuit Food. — Severe Cold. — The Angeko again. — 

 Burning the Fingers with cold Brass. — First Reindeer seen. — More Innuit Arri- 

 vals. — Improvidence of the Natives. — Generous Disposition. — Live to-day and 

 Want to-morrow. — Author Visits Kowtukjua — Clark's Harbor — and Ookoolear — 

 Allen's Island. — Return to the Igloo Village. — Departure for the Ship. — Too- 

 koolito's Sadness. — Quick Journey. — Plaintive Look of a Seal. — Arrive at the 

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CHAPTER XIII. 



Irksome Change from a Snow House to the Ship's Cabin. — Native Village on the 

 Ice. — Scurvy on Board. — Best Cure for it. — "Tuktoo! Tuktoo!" — A Reindeer 

 Hunt.— Dogs in Chase.— Remarkable Sagacity and Courage of Barbekark.— The 

 Deer killed by him.— Great Struggle between them.— A Venison Feast for the 

 Ship's Crew.— Death of Blind George's Wife.— Some of the sick Crew sent to live 

 with the Natives. — The Innuit King-wat-che-ung. — His Kindness to White Men. 

 — Koojesse and Charley. — A sick Man's Obstinacy. — One of the Sailors missing. — 

 Search for him. — Severely cold Weather. — Most of the Party unable to keep up 

 the Search. — The Author and one Sailor persevere. — The missing Man's Tracks; 

 his erratic Movements ; he gets confused and goes Seaward ; has a Rest in the 



