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CHAPTER XXIV. 



Prepare to leave twelfth Encampment. — Proceed on the Voyage. — Passing along 

 Head of Frobisher Bay. — Peale Point. — Bishop's Island. — Land on Kingaite, and 

 make thirteenth Encampment. — Author ascends a Mountain. — The "Stars and 

 Stripes." — A new Country. — Night at the Camp. — Sunlight on the Mountains. — 

 Talk with sick Tweroong. — The Bible. — Innuit Ideas of Heaven and Hell. — Fog- 

 gy Day. — Aggoun. — Not a Tuktoo, but a Goose. — Vexatious Delays. — Fourteenth 

 Encampment. — A Day of Trials and Discoveries. — Arrive at West side Head of 

 Frobisher Bay. — Jordan's River. — Hazard's Banks. — Explore the new Land. — 

 Beautiful Cascade. — Extensive and verdant Plains. — Brent Geese. — Silliman's 

 Fossil Mount. — Romantic Pass, the Great Gateway. — A white Whale. — An Innu- 

 it's ill Humor. — His savage Attack on his Wife. — Another Walk to the Falls. — 

 Picturesque Scenery. — Greenwood's Land. — Reindeer. — Start on Excursion to the 

 Great Gateway. — Bad Weather. — Arctic Owl. — Fossils. — Author sick. — Kind 

 Attention of Tweroong. — Dish of Salmon. — Laughable Incident. — Koomuk and 

 Pepper. — Another Excursion. — Visit to Silliman's Fossil Mount. 



It was on Thursday morning, August 29th, 1861, when we 

 made preparations to leave our twelfth encampment to cross over 

 to the westward to Kingaite, along the head of the Bay of Fro- 

 bisher. Before I proceed with my narrative, let me bring forward 

 an extract from my journal written the evening previous : 



" Indeed we are in a land and by waters of plenty. I am con- 

 stantly overwhelmed with presents of the very best of choice eat- 

 ing — tuktoo tongues, toodnoo, venison, ducks, seals, and salmon. 

 Kooperneung this moment (8 P.M.) comes in saying that Koo- 

 jesse is near by. Now for the trip across the head of Frobisher Bay 

 to Kingaite side. ***** 8 30 P.M. Koojesse has just 

 arrived ; brought four tuktoo skins, showing that he has killed as 

 many reindeer. "What a pity that such excellent meat as venison 

 should be abandoned? He has seen nothing of Koodloo, who 

 still remains out. The weather continues fine, and indications are 

 every way favorable of its continuance." 



Thursday morning Koodloo had not returned from his prolong- 

 ed tuktoo hunt. Arrangements having been previously made 

 with him that, in case he returned and found us gone, he should 

 make his way over the land terminating Frobisher Bay to Kin- 

 gaite, where he would find us, we decided to strike tupics, pack 

 boats, and push on. At 10 30 A.M. the two boats and two kias 

 were under way, our course nearly due west, to a point of land 



