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ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 



where the aurora was dancing and racing to and fro, it was 

 strangely grand. But the most remarkable phenomenon of the 

 kind I ever witnessed was the peculiar movement of the clouds 

 overhead. For some length of time they moved by " hitches," 

 passing with the wind slowly, and then stopping for a few seconds. 

 I called the attention of the Innuits to it, and they noticed this as 

 something they had never seen before. It seemed as if the clouds 

 were battling with an unseen enemy, but that the former had the 

 greater power, and forced their way by steps along the vault above. 

 These clouds were white, and of the kind classified as cumulus. I 

 thought it a very strange matter, and, according to my idea, the 

 aurora had something to do with it. 



tu-nuk-dee-lien (wife of Koo-jes-se) 



