. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. worn out by their fearful exertions. Now thatthey were safe, all their power was gone. A child could haveoverpowered the whole together. Wet, cold, and enfeebled, theircase required immediate attention. Dry clothing, warm drinks, 78 ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. and stimulants were at once supplied; and thus, with careful treat-ment, they soon recovered. At 10 the gale had died away to a calm, and we all re-tired to sleep, completely exhausted with our bodily and mentallabors of the past few hours. About this time I enjoyed a rare sight. O
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. worn out by their fearful exertions. Now thatthey were safe, all their power was gone. A child could haveoverpowered the whole together. Wet, cold, and enfeebled, theircase required immediate attention. Dry clothing, warm drinks, 78 ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. and stimulants were at once supplied; and thus, with careful treat-ment, they soon recovered. At 10 the gale had died away to a calm, and we all re-tired to sleep, completely exhausted with our bodily and mentallabors of the past few hours. About this time I enjoyed a rare sight. One of the Esquimauxturned summersets in the water seated in his hyack! Over andover he and his kyack went, till we cried Enough! and yet hewet only his hands and face ! This is a feat performed only by afew. iu requires great skill and strength to do it. One miss inthe stroke of the oar as they pass from the centre (when theirhead and body are under water) to the surface might terminatefatally. No one will attempt this feat, however, unless a com-. ESQUIJIAUX FEAT—A 6UMMEESET. panion in his kyack is near. The next feat I witnessed was foran Esquimaux to run his kyack, while seated in it, over some distance off, he strikes briskly and pushes an instant he is over, having struck the upturned peak of hisown kyack nearly amidships, and at right angles, of the feats were rewarded by a few plugs of tobacco. The day after the gale we had a mishap on board that threat-ened to prove serious, and, as it was, it detained us some dayslonger in Holsteinborg. Our anchors fouled, and, in trying toget one of them, the windlass gear broke. At this time our deck was crowded by the crews of both ves-sels, and Esquimaux men, women, and children, besides some dogs GOOD CHARACTER OF THE GEEENLANDERS. 79 I had purchased for my future sledge traveling. These togetherpresented a remarkably stirring picture, while the howling of thedogs, the sailors singing in ch
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