457 extent of the news. The arrivals proved not to be from Etah, but from Cape York. Egingwah and Erik are on their way to Unermak, accompanied by their wives. Ahlel[illegible]ungwa brought the kamiks which she made for January and me. The sewing is excellent and the tops are good seal leather; but the soles are not good, being made from the salted hide of the smaller of the two hooded seals that we got in Melville Bay. The Eski- mos could not extract the salt from the skin. The party left Cape York at about 5 o'clock this morning. They brought part of the carcass of a young polar bear for our tables. The women as well as the men are sleeping on the roof of the cabin tonight, they found the igloo on shore here too lousy on their last visit. [illegible] The cracks in the cabin stove is so large now that one can see the