There was a great commotion on shore with abundant howling on the part of the dogs. It transpired that Pudtl- laki's dogs, some of them, had gotten into the fox traps again. This time fortunately the traps were Pudtlaki's and Alaskutsiak's, hence the ship was not to blame. I am glad of this for one of the dogs, P.'s best one of course, broke a leg. St. Peter had the good luck, if not the good sense, to be on board the ship. This evening during our walk, I suggested to Dr. Tanquary, as I had already done to Mr. Ekblaw, that these two men at least had better write out and give to me a statement of their criticisms of the management of the scientific work of the C.L. Expedition. The letters are to be sealed and confidential and are not to be opened unless the conference in