23 February. Friday. (203) 3, SW4; 5, SW4; 5, SW5; 5, S4; 0, E1; 4.5; 3; 2; 0; +0.6 min -1.5; max +6 av. +2.2 Thick, stormy, disagreeable day, but the continued SW wind has driven the young ice and slush in against the shore ice and ice foot so that the Eskimos say that it will freeze now so that they will soon be able to go south by the sea route, which is much easier than that over the ice caps. So much soft snow has fallen that I soon turned back from the fjord today as I sank nearly to my knees much of the way. I finished my walk on land eastward and less than a mile in all of that was enough to satisfy me. When I asked Accommodating when when he would start for Wee-ahk-du-han-zi all he could say was "Kah-no" with an expressive shrug of the shoulders as he gazed out to sea. He and Ettookas'ooq have built snow-block wind breaks in front of their igloos, the latter's being a continuation of the wall and roof of the vestibule to his tunnel entrance (tök-sook). Ettookas'ooq's patient watching for two days at the seal hole near Dog Island was rewarded today, and shortly after noon we saw him drag- ging in a good-sized seal across the ice. Great was the rejoicing in his igloo. A sudden exodus from our house later was explained when we learned that Alrich had cooked some meat. All hands help a family get rid of their meat. She brought some in