THE EXCHANGE. 
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of Marsumah, quite confident that his wife would 
feed them faithfully, and took from them their only 
team in unequal exchange. Such had become our 
relations with these poor friends of ours, that such 
an act of authority would have gone unquestioned 
if it had cost them a much graver sacrifice. They 
saw the condition of my own travel-broken ani¬ 
mals, and were well aware of the sufferings of our 
party, so long their neighbors and allies. Old Nes- 
sark filled my* sledge with walrus-meat; and two 
of the young men joined me on foot, to assist me 
through the broken ice between Littleton Island and 
the mainland. 
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