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wind from the northeast blowing almost a gale. Every thing 

 was in a wet state, outside and in, except bedding and clothing. 

 A flood of water occupied half of the tupic. 



It would astonish most people at home to see how comfortably 

 I lived with the Innuits, like one of themselves. While I jotted 

 down notes, or more fully wrote out notes previously made, Suzhi 

 chanted some Innuit tune, and Ebierbing and Tookoolito enjoyed 

 what among civilized white folks would be a " tea-table chat." 

 We lived also, at times, on pemmican and kelp, a sea-weed gath- 

 ered by the Innuits when the tide is out. These people are not 

 exclusively flesh-eaters, for in the summer-time they occasionally 

 gather and eat a few berries and leaves of stunted wild plants 

 that grow sparsely in these regions. Both summer and winter 

 they collect kelp, and eat it, but only as a sort of luxury, except 

 in case of great scarcity of food, and then they fall back upon this 

 resource. I have acquired a taste for this sea-weed, and eat it as 

 they do, raw or boiled, in which latter state it is more tender. 



The stormy weather continued some days, and no work could 

 be done. On Tuesday, August 6th, the wind blew a gale, with 

 rain. On Wednesday we had a little better weather, and I went 



over to the ship again to see Captain B . I hoped to set out 



on my trip up Frobisher Bay within a day or two. On Wednes- 

 day evening, during ebb tide, the "ghost" of the Rescue drifted 

 out of the harbor into the bay, and went seaward. I thought this 

 was probably the last we should see of her. On the same even- 

 ing I communicated to Ebierbing and Tookoolito my intended 

 immediate departure, and informed them that I had made ar- 

 rangements with the captain for their removal nearer the ship, so 

 that Ebierbing might receive some better attention. They were 

 sorrowful at my leaving, but hoped to see me again before many 

 weeks. 



I then requested Ebierbing to assist me in persuading Koodloo 

 and his nuliana "Jennie" to accompany me, which would just 

 complete my now proposed crew. I soon found that both Ebier- 

 bing and Tookoolito were very loth to have the angeko (Jennie) 

 leave while Ebierbing was sick. I therefore gave her up, accept- 

 ing Koodloo's offer to go without her. 



On Thursday morning, the 8th of August, I found that Ebier- 

 bing had slept better than for several nights past. At 9 A.M., 

 while Koodloo was on the top of our island (Whale Island), he 

 cried down to Tookoolito, who was making our morning coffee 



