Other meats - and there was nothing aside from meat, except good tea and excellent coffee - were frozen narwhal flesh, dried narwhal lean meat which had been soak- ed in narwhal oil (nikkel) and mukt- ta or narwhal skin with the adjoining layer of hard fat. The frozen narwhal and muktta are more or less decayed, but these people thrive on rotten meat and a white man eats it rather than go hungry. In the other igloos they had frozen rotten little auks and ditto duck, but I did not try them, my hunger having been satisfied at the big igloo. He contributed sugar, biscuits, and later in the evening a five pound box of chocolate creams which was much appreciated. Here at Cape York the people are so "wealthy" that they burn narwhal oil in their lamp stores. This gives a clear, brilliant flame with good heating qualities. Dead moss issued