. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. om Oo-mcr-nnng, a small highisland on the east side of the entrance of the inlet, in lat. 62° SOJ N., long. 05°2C W. t A beautiful sheet of water, mostly surrounded by rugged mountains, and thusnamed by me after Peter Force, of Washington, D. C. The entrance to this soundis in lat. 02° 55V N., long. 65° 48 W. i So named after John D. Jones, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Joness CajC is in lat. 02°55 30 N.,° 45 W. 372 ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. style, were here, and gave me a hearty welcome. Ookgooalloowas sick, and I therefore visited him as so
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. om Oo-mcr-nnng, a small highisland on the east side of the entrance of the inlet, in lat. 62° SOJ N., long. 05°2C W. t A beautiful sheet of water, mostly surrounded by rugged mountains, and thusnamed by me after Peter Force, of Washington, D. C. The entrance to this soundis in lat. 02° 55V N., long. 65° 48 W. i So named after John D. Jones, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Joness CajC is in lat. 02°55 30 N.,° 45 W. 372 ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. style, were here, and gave me a hearty welcome. Ookgooalloowas sick, and I therefore visited him as soon as I could. I wasguided to his tupic by his groans; but when I entered and askedthe name of the sufferer before me, I was surprised to learn thatit was my old friend, so sadly changed. Sickness seemed unusu-ally prevalent; indeed, the only three men of the place were sofeeble that not one of them could go out hunting or sealing. At this spot were some remarkable monuments of stone, onebeing in the form of a cross, and about six feet m^rw nrmnT monument at toong-wtne—jones8 cape In the evening, being in want of oil for my lamp, I went toKoojesses tupic to obtain some. There I beheld a scene for apicture: Koodloo and Charley made search, found seal-blubber, broughtit in, and passed it to Suzhi, who was in tuktoo, as I may say—that is, abed. Of course, like all Innuits when in bed, she was en-tirely nude; but she immediately rose on her elbows, and pro-ceeded to bite off pieces of blubber, chewing them, sucking theoil out, then spirting it into a little cone-like dish, made by invert-ing the bottom of my broken tin lamp. In this way she obtainedwith her dental mill, in less than two minutes, oil enough to A NOVEL SCENE. 373 fill two large-sized lamps. Koodloo and Kooperneung were stand-ing up in the tupic at the time, I was seated with Akchuker-zhun at my right, on tuktoo, by Suzhis head, waiting for mylamp, while Koojcsse and his partner, Tunukderlien, were at
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