433 was light and variable this morning. West to southeast. Stronger at 6 p.m. S.E. Temp. Min +20°; 9a. 22°; noon+19°; 3p.+17° January and I took a six mile walk in the dim twilight across the bay to the snowdrift glacier and to the igloo. Inefliate was scraping the blubber off the skin of the seal which Nene brought back from Cape York. She used a knife shaped much like one of our chopping knives . The wo- men are very skillful in the use of these knives for many purposes about the igloo and in the fashioning of clothing. She kept the seal skin taut enough to be flat by resting the board upon which she was working, and over which the seal- skin was drawn, against her left leg. She had taken off her kermi to keep it from getting greasy, but her own skin showed the effect of the meagre supply of water. We arranged with her to dry a supply of grass for us to use in