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ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 



ney both tedious and difficult. At noon we were at the foot of 

 Bayard Taylor Pass leading to Field Bay, and after a lunch we 

 walked on over the land, stopping a moment at the half-way sta- 

 tion for a drink of delicious water, and arrived on the other side 

 at 4 P.M. 



Field Bay had firm ice upon it, and over this we traveled as 

 rapidly as we could, finally reaching the ship at 8 P.M., having 

 been just twelve hours on the way. 



OOP-LOO, OK AVOMAn'S. KNIFE. 



The illustration one third the size of the original. 

 In the hand8 of an Esquimaux -woman, this simple instrument, made of bone and iron (the arc sim- 

 ply edged with iron), is equivalent to the knife, hatchet, scraper, and shears of civilization. 



