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make seemed to like it. A very little of this solid, rich food sat- 

 isfies one's appetite. This article is eaten, not because it tastes 

 good, for it does not, but to live. It is almost like eating tallow 

 candles. One must have a sharp appetite to eat pemmican in the 

 usual way it is prepared. In the manufacture of mine I used the 

 best of beef and beef suet in the place of what is generally used, 

 to wit, beef and hog's fat. The composition consists of an equal 

 weight of beef (dried and granulated) and beef suet, which are in- 

 corporated while the latter is hot, and then put up in tin cans and 

 hermetically sealed. Thus made and put up, it will keep good for 

 years. One pound of my pemmican is equivalent to two and a 

 half pounds of fresh beef-steak. Four pounds of fresh beef, on be- 

 ing dried, is reduced to a pound." 



At 2 30 P.M. I went up to make my call on Captain B in 



his new harbor, two and one half miles off, taking with me Kood- 

 loo and other Innuits as my boat's crew. We soon arrived, and 

 after the first greeting between us, I mentioned my desire to take 

 Koojesse with me instead of Ebierbing, who was too sick to go on 

 my Frobisher Bay trip. The arrangement was made, so far as 

 concerned Captain B (he having pre-engaged Koojesse's serv- 

 ices), and, after a short stay on board, I departed. 



There was some difficulty in getting back to my Innuit home, 

 owing to both wind and tide being against me, and, when the isl- 

 and was reached, my boat could not be hauled up on account of 

 low water. I was therefore obliged to keep on the watch nearly 

 all night, to guard against the danger of losing her. 



The night was a stormy one ; the rain, at times, descending in 

 torrents, and the wind blowing furiously. Every now and then 

 I enveloped myself in an oil-cloth suit, and went down to watch 

 the condition of the boat. The tide would soon be up so far as 

 to enable us to draw her on the beach ; so, thinking that all was 

 right, I laid myself down to rest. 



About 2 A.M. of the 3d, however, I was aroused by invalid 

 Ebierbing, who said that, from the noise, the sea was beating on 

 shore. Immediately I went down to the boat, and, finding it in a 

 precarious condition, called up all the natives, and with their aid 

 at once had her dragged above reach of the sea. This done, I 

 again retired to my couch, and slept soundly till the musical voice 

 of Angeko Jennie once more aroused me. Looking round, I saw 

 she was renewing her professional practice over her patient. Too- 

 koolito and Suzhi were seriously, I may say solemnly engaged in 



