. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. ess, but I soon found how mistaken Iwas in this idea. On showing them what I had done, they shrug-ged their shoulders and — said nothing. Of course I was sur-prised, and knew not what to make of such conduct, it being thereverse of what I had expected. It was not long before I learn-ed the mistake I had made in killing the joung bear. This I as-certained in the following way: While Koojesse and Sharkeywere engaged skinning ar-luk-ta (young polar bear), I proposed tothem to go into camp where we were. They objected to this. Ithen told them how
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. ess, but I soon found how mistaken Iwas in this idea. On showing them what I had done, they shrug-ged their shoulders and — said nothing. Of course I was sur-prised, and knew not what to make of such conduct, it being thereverse of what I had expected. It was not long before I learn-ed the mistake I had made in killing the joung bear. This I as-certained in the following way: While Koojesse and Sharkeywere engaged skinning ar-luk-ta (young polar bear), I proposed tothem to go into camp where we were. They objected to this. Ithen told them how desirous I was to remain in that locality fora day or so. My great and earnest object was. to ascend the highland close by, and connect together some of the points of my pastand prospective visitation. I found that nothing whatever wouldinduce them to stop and make encampment there. They saidthat the old bear would return in the night, and, smelling theblood of her young, she would be enraged to madness, and kill 534 ARCTIC RESEARCH YOUNG POLAE COMING TO TOE POIKT. all of us. Furthermore, they said that their people always avoidedkilling the young of a Nmoo till the old one was dead, from thevery fact that the previous death of the offspring made the moth-er a hundred fold more terrible than she otherwise would be. Theresult of this matter was no camp there or about there that companions, having completed their work of skinning thebear, buried in snow the liver and head, which Innuits never eat,nor allow their dogs to eat, if they can help it. However, one ofmy dogs, Barbekark, got loose from the sledge and found the liver,when the whole pack bolted away and pitched in for a carcass of the bear was placed on the sledge, when (5 )we started on our way down the channel. In half an hour wcarrived at open water—a tide-opening one third of a mile longand thirty fathoms wide. Sharkey had told mc about this openwater while we were at the 17th e
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