509 Chief Cotton came back from igloo this evening saying that the seal oil and fat were all gone. Inethiak has run the primus somewhat to-day, but is saving of the kero- sene. She is sewing on the blanket mit- tens for us by candle light, without fire. Alakutsiak went with his kamatik to- day to go to a spot by the sea ice for the seal blubber left there by Ahnguodoblako. Existence here is always on the rag- ged edge for people hampered as Pudthak is. It is hard enough for the vigorous, energetic families pos- sessing all their faculties. At dinner to-night we had some baked seal meat from a seal brought over by Inughite. It was somewhat "high", but I liked it much better than the freshly killed seal which we have had on rare occasions here- tofore. Tank had a frozen chunk of the raw flesh. I tried a bit and