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AKCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Chewing old Boots. — Formation of Icebergs. — Innuits good Anatomists. — Proceed 

 on the Voyage. — Koojesse draughting the Coast. — Sarah G.'s Cape. — Iron Isl- 

 and. — Arrive at Jones's Cape. — A Settlement of Innuits. — Native Monuments. — 

 Dental Mill for trying out Oil. — Blowing a Gale. — Danger to the Boat. — Arrive 

 at Ming-u-toon. — Next Day's Trip. — Great Eise and Fall of Tides. — Boat nearly 

 aground. — Encamp on an Island. — Bones of the Whale and other Animals. — A 

 Grave. — Kenew the Voyage. — A Mill-race of Waters. — An exciting Time. — La- 

 borious and difficult Work. — Beautiful Weather. — Arrive at Waddell Bay and 

 make seventh Encampment. — Depart again. — Meeting with old Artarkparu. — A 

 persevering and industrious Cripple. — Proceed toward his Village. — Annawa and 

 other Natives there, — Women busily engaged sewing Skins. — Nursing a big Boy. 

 — A good Feast. — More information about Frobisher's Expedition. — Continue the 

 Voyage. — Numerous Islands. — Eighth Encampment. — Ascend a Mountain. — Re- 

 markable Features about it. — Large Caverns. — Huge Rocks ready to Fall. — The 

 Aurora. — Curious Phenomena. 



The following day, Monday, August 12th, 1861, Suzhi and my- 

 self remaining at Oopungnewing, the rest of my company set out 

 in the boat for the main land on a tuktoo hunt. My time was oc- 

 cupied in taking observations, writing, and examining the island, 

 while Suzhi was busily engaged in dressing sealskins for jackets, 

 and " milling" old native boots — that is, making the soles soft and 

 pliant by chewing them. 



During the day I heard some extraordinary noises, like the 

 rumblings of an earthquake. I had noticed the same on our way 

 from Cape Cracroft, but now the sound was so loud that I could 

 not help asking Suzhi if she knew what it was. She replied that 

 it came from the Kingaite side of the waters ; and, from what I 

 afterward learned, it must have been caused by large masses of 

 ice — icebergs — from Grinnell Glacier falling into the sea. The 

 distance traversed by the thundering sound thus occasioned was 

 about forty miles. At other times, while in this bay, I have felt 

 the earth tremble from the same cause. 



In the evening Suzhi and I took a walk round to the north 

 side of the island. "We had not gone far when she asked me, in 

 her native tongue, " Do you see walrus?" pointing to a long white 

 line running up the mountain's side. I looked, and at first sup- 



