ave come driving
is shown by the equipages standing in the neighbourhood of
the vessel. They consist of small, low, narrow, light
sledges, drawn by four to ten or twelve dogs. The sledges
are made of small pieces of wood and bits of
reindeer-horn, held together by sealskin straps. As
runner-shoes thin plates of the ribs of the whale are
used. The dogs, sharp-nosed, long-backed, and excessively
dirty, have laid themselves to rest, curled together in
the snow.

"The salutation is followed almost immediately to-day as
on preceding days by some other words: 'Ouinga mouri
kauka,' which may be translated thus: 'I am so hungry; I
have no food; give me a little bread!' They suffer hunger
now, the poor beings. Seal flesh, their main food, they
cannot with the best will procure for the time. The only
food they can get consists of fish (two kinds of cod), but
this is quite too poor diet for them, they have fallen off
since we first met with them.

"Soon we are all surrounded by our Chukch acquaintances.
The daily market begins. They have various things to
offer, which they know to be of value to us, as weapons,
furs, ornaments, playthings, fish, bones of the whale,
algae, vegetables, &c. For all this only 'kauka' is now
asked. To-day the supply of whales' bones is large, in
consequence of our desire, expressed on previous days, to
obtain them. One has come with two vertebrae, one with a
rib or some fragments of it, one with a shoulder-blade.
They are not shy in laying heavy loads on their dogs.

"After the close of the promenade and the traffic with the
natives, the gunroom _personnel_ have begun their labours.
Some keep in their cabins, others in the gunroom itself.
The magnetical and meteorological observations made the
day before are transcribed and subjected to a preliminary
working-out, the natural history collections are examined
and looked over, studies and authorship are prosecuted.
The work is now and then interrupted by conversation
partly serious, partly jocular. From the engine-room in
the neighbourhood we hear the blows of hammers and the
rasping of files. In the 'tweendecks, pretty well heated,
but not very well lighted, some of the crew are employed
at ordinary ship's work; and in the region of the kitchen
the cook is just in the midst of his