RECEPTO A3IICO. 
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I had brought Avith me, expecting the boy might need 
it, a small mustard-bottle of our treasured molasses, 
and a little tea. We keep a camp-kettle at this hut, 
and both of us wore in our belts the inseparable tin- 
cup. How the boy enjoyed his hot tea! Metek had 
given him a feAV lumps of frozen walrus-liver, the very 
best provision for cold travel: our appetites Avere good; 
and, the tAVO thus fitly harmonizing, we crunched aAvay 
right merrily. 
“Hans reached Etali with Myouk tAvo days after 
leaving us, and at once commenced his hunt. In the 
course of five days of most hazardous ice-range, he killed 
tAvo fine young animals; his three companions in the 
hunt killing only three. He had the great advantage 
of my powerful Marston rifle, but his tackle Avas very 
inferior. Our sinuet-laid twine Avould not stand the 
powerful struggles of the beast, and on one occasion 
parted Avliile fast in a large female. Still his success 
must have acquired for him the good-Avill of these 
people, for in the ‘Sens’ or hunting-division of spoil 
they gained by his companionship. 
“In the sickness that folloAved his long exposure, he 
tells me, he Avas A\ r aited on most carefully at the settle¬ 
ment. A young daughter of Shunghu elected herself 
his nurse, and her sympathies and smiles have, I fear, 
made an impression on his heart which a certain 
damsel near Upernavik might be sorry to hear of. 
“Hans cached part of his meat at Littleton Island, 
after sending a load by William to the brig. He had 
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