AT ETAH 
ing and getting acquainted with each other. 
Some of the Esquimos' goods are ashore, some 
aboard the Erik, and the rest forward on the 
roof of the deck-house, while the Roosevelt is 
getting her coal aboard. 
The loading of the meat and coal has been 
done by the crews of the ships, assisted and 
hampered by some of the Esquimos, and I 
have been walrus-hunting, and taxidermizing ; 
that is, I have skinned a pair of walrus so 
that they can be stuffed and mounted. This 
job has been very carefully, and I tliink suc- 
cessfully, done and the skins have been towed 
ashore. The hearts, livers, and kidneys have 
been brought aboard and the meat is to be 
loaded to-morrow. Two boat-loads of bones 
have been rowed over to Dog Island for dog- 
food. 
Coaling and stowing of whale-meat aboard 
the Roosevelt was finished at noon, August 
15, and all day Sunday, August 16, all hands 
were at the job transferring to the Erik the 
boxes of provisions that were to be left at the 
cache at Etah. Bos'n Murphy and Billy 
Pritchard, the cabin-boy, are to stay as guard 
until the return of the Roosevelt next summer. 
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