ALL READY 
and one sledge from the Captain's party, and 
with my own three boys, Ooblooyah, Ootah, 
and I-forget-his-name, and a howling mob of 
dogs, we left for the western side of Cape 
Columbia, and got the rest of the pemmican 
and biscuits. On the way back, we met the 
Captain, who was out taking exercise. He 
had nothing to say; he did not shake hands, 
but there was something in his manner to show 
that he was glad to see us. With the coming 
of the daylight a man gets more cheerful, but 
it was still twilight when we left Cape Colum- 
bia, and melancholy would sometimes grip, as 
it often did during the darkness of midwinter. 
Captain Bartlett helped us to push the 
loaded sledges to Cape Aldrich and nothing 
was left at Cape Columbia. 
When we got back to camp we found Pro- 
fessor Marvin and his party of three Esquimos 
there. They had just reached the camp and 
were at work building an igloo. 
Professor Marvin came over to our igloo and 
changed his clothes; that is, in a temperature 
of at least 45° below zero, by the light of my 
lantern he coolly and calmly stripped to the 
pelt, and proceeded to cloth himself in the new 
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