Dr.'s good opinion is pleasing—(33 the more so because I have not him considered more than passively friend- ly to me, if indeed he were that. About 10 o'clock Ek & Dr. came in reporting that they had secured an erguk (square flipper seal) and had towed him in shore at the tupics. This was their first catch of the kind and they were glad. After eating some supper, Ek and I went over to the ergjuk. He got Egingwah badu to skin the animal and I was interested in watching the Eskimo, who finished the job of skinning and cutting up most skillfully just as the "Ingerlis" came to anchor in the Cove and sent her boat ashore at midnight under the light of a clear sun.