n whose husband had been one of our party. Her name I
forget now, but it meant 'big toes.' So what with nursing by 'Mrs.
Little-nose' and 'Mrs. Big-toes,' and with plenty of seal meat to eat,
the Dean and I got on famously. The name of Mrs. Big-toes' husband was
_Awak_, which means walrus. He was a fine hunter, and had plenty of
dogs. These dogs, I should mention, were always allowed to run loose
about the village; and, no matter how cold it was, they slept on the
snow. But their harness had to be taken off, else they would eat it; and
everything eatable was buried out of sight in the snow, or brought
inside the hut.

"After we had been eating, and sleeping, and enjoying the hospitality of
these savages about three days, a young hunter whose name was _Kossuit_,
which meant that he was a little dark-skinned fellow, came driving into
the village (he had been out prospecting for a hunt), proclaiming, in a
very loud voice, that there was a great crack in the ice, and that it
was alive with walrus and seal. There was immediately a great stir, and
a great harnessing of dogs, and hunting up of whips, and getting
together of harpoons and spears and lines. Everybody was going on the
hunt, that is, all the men and boys. When all was ready, Eatum came to
me, and said, 'Ketchum _awak_, ketchum _pussay_, you go?' meaning, would
we go with them, and catch walrus and seals. Of course we said 'yes,'
and off we started at a wild pace; the Dean riding with Kossuit, while I
rode with Eatum. We had to go I should think four miles before we came
to the crack; and, when we reached it, we found it to be as Kossuit had
described it. As soon as the savages saw the crack, they stopped their
dogs, which was done by crying, _Eigh, eigh, eigh!_ to them, and
whipping then:, fiercely if they did not mind soon enough. The dogs
being now fastened by running the points of the runners into the snow,
the hunters went forward with their lines and spears and harpoons; and,
by approaching the side of the crack very cautiously, they managed at
length to get near enough to throw their harpoons into the animals when
they came up to the surface to breathe. Their mode of capturing them was
almost the same as that which we employed in catching seals, after
finding it out for ourselves. Thus you see how all people in the same
conditions of life will naturally be led to the same way of providing
for their wants,--our senses being given to us all, whether savage or
c