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ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 



YOUNG POLAE COMING TO THE POINT. 



all of us. Furthermore, they said that their people always avoided 

 killing the young of a ISTinoo till the old one was dead, from the 

 very fact that the previous death of the offspring made the moth- 

 er a hundred fold more terrible than she otherwise would be. The 

 result of this matter was no camp there or about there that night. 



My companions, having completed their work of skinning the 

 bear, buried in snow the liver and head, which Innuits never eat, 

 nor allow their dogs to eat, if they can help it. However, one of 

 my dogs, Barbekark, got loose from the sledge and found the liver, 

 when the whole pack bolted away and pitched in for a share. 

 The carcass of the bear was placed on the sledge, when (5 P.M.) 

 we started on our way down the channel. In half an hour we 

 arrived at open water — a tide-opening one third of a mile long 

 and thirty fathoms wide. Sharkey had told me about this open 

 water while we were at the 17th encampment, on occasion of my 

 proposing to strike from thence to Kingaite, and continue down 



