448 hood. The child came willingly to me and sat nicely in my lap. She would be an attractive baby, if she were clean, for she bright and cheerful and well behaved. She was much pleased when I gave her a stick of peanut candy but she was not greedy about it. She even gave it to Allen, when he put out his hand for it, but she was glad to get it back with its waxed paper cover loosened. Then she proceeded to eat it decorously. She likes to ride in her mother's hood and does not like to stay long in the cabin. She is three years old, according to the mother, but seems younger. Eskimos do not reckon time exactly. Jants and I enjoyed our walk across the bay after our three days of restriction to the ship, but four miles in the new snow gave us as much exercise as six on hard snow and ice would have given. The crew banked some of the new