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KALUTUNAH. 
thank youthe first thanks I have heard from a native 
of this upper region. He called me his friend,— 
“ Asakaoteet,” “Hove you well,”—and would be happy, 
he said, to join the “ nalegak-soak ” in a hunt. 
PORTRAIT OF KALUTUNAH. 
The project was one that had engaged my thoughts 
long before daylight had renewed the possibility of 
carrying it out. I felt that the farther shores beyond 
Kennedy Channel were still to be searched before our 
work could be considered finished; but we were without 
dogs, the indispensable means of travel. We had only 
four left out of sixty-two. Famine among the Esquimaux 
