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ESQUIMAUX ENDURANCE. 
called Appall, from the “Appall” or Lumme which 
colonize here in almost incredible numbers, the drive 
has been made in a single day; and thence to Netelik, 
on the main of Murchison Sound, in another. In a 
third, the long reach has been traversed by Cape 
Saumarez to the settlement of Karsioot, on a low 
tongue near Cape Robertson; and the fourth day has 
closed at Etali, or even Aunatok, the open place,—the 
resting-place now of our poor deserted Oomiak-soak. 
This four days’ travel cannot be less than six hundred 
miles; and Amaladok, Metek’s half-brother, assured 
me that he had made it in three,—probably changing 
his teams. 
Their powers of resistance to exposure and fatigue 
are not greater perhaps than those of a well-trained 
voyager from other regions. But the necessities of 
their precarious life familiarize them with dangers 
from which the bravest among us might shrink with¬ 
out dishonor. To exemplify this, I select a single one 
from a number of adventures that were familiar in 
their recent history. 
During the famine at Etah last winter, when we 
ourselves were so much distressed for fresh food, two 
of my friends, Awahtok and Myouk, determined to 
seek the walrus on the open ice. It was a performance 
of the greatest danger; but it was better in their eyes 
than the sacrifice of their dogs, and they both pos¬ 
sessed to the fullest extent that apathetic fatalism 
which belongs to all lowly-cultivated races. They 
succeeded in killing a large male, and were in the act 
