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ship and the seventh at the sixteenth encampment. On that 

 morning I determined no longer to delay, but at once to return to 

 the George Henry (if she had not sailed), going down by the Kin- 

 gaite side of Frobisher Bay. Accordingly, at 10 A.M. we all start- 

 ed on our homeward journey. The tide at starting was just 

 sufficient to float us over the rocks, and we had a breeze to help 

 us, but the weather was unfavorable. In some places we could 

 see a snow-storm raging, and every sign of winter was now per- 

 ceptible. Our trip that day was along the Kingaite coast, and 

 after a few hours' sail we reached an island I have named Twer- 

 oong,* on which Miner's party had encamped, where we also 

 pitched our tents for the night, making our seventeenth encamp- 

 ment. 



The next day (September 13th) we were confined to our tents 

 on a small rocky island by a heavy gale and a furious sea ; but 

 on the 14th the weather became more moderate, and we resumed 

 our boat- voyage, crossing over from the island to Cape Kammels- 

 berg,f on the Kingaite side, that I might examine it. 



While we were there, a fine-looking tuktoo was discovered ly- 

 ing on one of the little plains. Kooperneung at once went off 

 with his double-barreled gun to secure it. I could see the royal 

 antlers of the noble animal as it quietly reposed, unconscious of 

 its fate. As Kooperneung approached it scented a foe, started 

 up, and away it went at full speed ; but too late. One report — 

 another. The tuktoo was a prize, having rushed on its fate in flee- 

 ing toward a rocky pass where the cunning Innuit had secreted 

 himself. 



We made our eighteenth encampment about four or five miles 

 from this place, at Cape Caldwell,;}: and on the morning of Sep- 

 tember 15th proceeded on our way. I may here observe, that 

 few of those who read this book can have any conception of 

 the many difficulties I had to encounter in my task. Innuits 

 are Innuits, and such they ever will be. They are independent 

 of every other human being, and will never brook control, no 

 matter what engagements they enter into. At this particular 

 time of which I am writing — and, indeed, during all my work at 



* After the noble-hearted Innuit woman Tweroong. This island, place of our 

 seventeenth encampment, is in lat. 63° 28' N., long. 68° 21' W. 



f Named after Frederick Rammelsberg, of Cincinnati, Ohio. This cape is in lat. 

 63° 21' 30" N., long. 68° 20' W. 



| I have named this cape after John D. Caldwell, of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is in 

 lat. 63° 23' 30" N., long. 68° IT W. 



