trained put us at Etah in three weeks time. After supper we unpacked the victrola, which Admiral Peary was sending by us to Ootah, who was one of his four Eskimos at the North Pole, and started a concert on the quarterdeck. The behavior of "Chirm", Captain Pickel's year-old full-blooded Newfoundland dog was comical in the extreme. He had never seen or heard such a thing before and he did not know what to make of it. He looked at it with amazed interest and curiosity, cocked his head first to one side and then to the other, cast inquiring looks around the group of men standing about, and then came around to each of us in turn and sniffed and listened. Satisfied at length as to the source of the music, he curled up beside the machine and settled down to enjoy himself. The performance was a good reproduction of the well-known advertising picture entitled "His Master's Voice". Calm weather or light winds were our lot for the next four days and we did little more than drift along northward. The engine had been overhauled by its builders in preparation for this voyage and had been declared by them to be in perfect order when it left the shop in June, but trouble had developed on the schooner's voyage from Boston to St. Anthony