chief started for Corical Rock [7] on a wager of a blue fox skin each with the second mate that he could make the round trip within five hours. He started off at a too rapid gait, taking French Ben as companion and toting Dr. Hunt's automatic as a pre- caution against meeting a bear. — at 1:45 the two— turned, having turned the trick in 3 3/4 hours, which was excel- lent time. They encountered con- siderable thin ice near the island and were in danger more than once. Ben broke through with one foot and got his leg into the water above the knee. The chief earned his fox skins all right, and I for one was glad of his success.