June 11 Point Barrow, Alaska around the ankle. The current fashion is for the boots to be of brown sealskin with white bindings that are about an inch wide. Some of the all-winter men here at the base have adopted use of muklukas, with fairly favorable results. Our shoe-packs, Rubber lower part and leather upper, I think are just as practical. Some of the Eskimo wear these or buckle overshoes. The kids wear the oddest assortment of foot- gear, sometimes ill-fitting and worn. Once in a while a pair of hip rubber boots is seen. When it got to be 11:30 and we were about frozen up in our tracks we decided to go on home. The temperature was creeping toward 30°. It proved to be almost too cold for the natives too for the party broke up about 12:30 without really leaving up at all. June 18 There was a second party on the 15th which did not attend. The sky was overcast but it was not quite so cold. Again, the reports said, even the Eskimo could not quite bring themselves to full activity, although the blanket tossing went on for quite awhile. This even- ing was nearly clear and by Arctic standards, mild. Quite a gang from the base went