. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. beingvery red, and while they did not compare withthose from home rivers, we considered them ex-cellent, as they were the first fresh fish we hadhad on the voyage. Leaving camp, I went downto the boat and found they had just taken a splen-did haul; the net was shot several times and agrand total of 108 fish counted out. Dinner wasready when we reached the fire and some morefish were staked out to cook. This delicate repast over, our things were car-ried down to the boats and we made our wayback as we had come. Seeing us from the ship,help had been
. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. beingvery red, and while they did not compare withthose from home rivers, we considered them ex-cellent, as they were the first fresh fish we hadhad on the voyage. Leaving camp, I went downto the boat and found they had just taken a splen-did haul; the net was shot several times and agrand total of 108 fish counted out. Dinner wasready when we reached the fire and some morefish were staked out to cook. This delicate repast over, our things were car-ried down to the boats and we made our wayback as we had come. Seeing us from the ship,help had been sent to bring the boats across theice. Many of the whalers fish for salmon every yearand sometimes catch great numbers. The bestplace is, as stated before, a river flowing intoPonds Bay. Here several thousands are oftentaken. The Eskimo dogs had eaten their harness andgone away, excepting two lame fellows, and thenatives made these pull them to the ship. August 27th. Wednesday. Enu, with his me-nage, left for home, and after breakfast we un-. Enu in the Center
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