. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. e water, but they had gone too far and werebehind hummocks of ice, so that I could not seethem. The boat then overtook them and the mateshot both. As nothing more was seen among theloose ice we steamed to the floe edge and hookedon. I bagged a few ducks in the evening. August 30th. Saturday. We steamed down thecoast and hooked on off Cape Raper. Two nativescame on board, and we bought a live fox fromone of them. It was young and blue, and spent therest of the voyage walking about the funnel casing,where its home was in a lime-juice box. The na-tiv
. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. e water, but they had gone too far and werebehind hummocks of ice, so that I could not seethem. The boat then overtook them and the mateshot both. As nothing more was seen among theloose ice we steamed to the floe edge and hookedon. I bagged a few ducks in the evening. August 30th. Saturday. We steamed down thecoast and hooked on off Cape Raper. Two nativescame on board, and we bought a live fox fromone of them. It was young and blue, and spent therest of the voyage walking about the funnel casing,where its home was in a lime-juice box. The na-tives left during the afternoon and we remainedat the floe edge all night. It was a beautiful calm Sunday and the last dayof August on which we arrived at Cape Cornwallis very soon afterwards came in andI went on board at once. They had had a most unsuccessful voyage asthe ship had been spoiled for sailing by havingan engine put in which was of no use. They hadkilled a whale and picked up a dead one, havingone ton of bone from the Copyright by Underwood and Underwood, N. Y. West Side Mother and Child IN THE WHALER AURORA 211 Poor old Captain Mchol was very much de-pressed. Every one said lie was a fine sailor; thathis blood was tar and his flesh rope yams. Theytold us that the other ships had done well, theNova Zemhla having eight, the Polynia six andthe Esquimaux ten whales when last seen. Armitage came on shore with me and we visitedsome native habitations. They were tents made ofskin, and the sim beating on them made themwarm inside; but as there was not a particle ofventilation, the odor was the w^orst possible. Wesaw in them the stone lamps in which the seal oilwas burned, moss being used as a wick; sometimesold tins served the purpose instead of stone. This country is generally called Baffin is, however, no reason to believe that it isnot divided up by channels into many doubt passages exist connecting Davis Straitswith Fox Channel. Much
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