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About two P.M. the wind shifted to the N.W. By tacking we got to Kupperlik, about the middle of Kaumayok, but having the skin-boat in tow, could not weather the point, and were at length obliged to return to our former anchorage in the strait. 28th. The wind being North we could not proceed. We therefore ascended the mountain of Cape Mugford.
With John and his mother Mary, Brother Kohlmeister spoke very seriously, and represented to them the danger of their state, as apostates from the faith; but they seem blinded by Satan, and determined to persist in their heathenish life. The Esquimaux now offered to convey the party across the bay in their skin-boat, which was accepted.
On our return to the skin-boat we found ourselves pretty much fatigued, and ready to partake of a supper, cooked by the Esquimaux, consisting of ship's biscuit, dried fish, and raw whitefish blubber.
"I wish our skin-boat would come for us," said Lucile suddenly, as they talked of it in the privacy of their tent. "But it won't, not for three weeks yet. That was the agreement." "I know." "And we haven't a wireless to call them with. Besides, my sketches are not nearly complete." "I know," said Lucile, her chin in her hands. "But, all the same, that man makes me afraid."
As the submarine rose to the surface the doctor saw a dark shadow pass over the glass window at the top. At the same time he felt a slight jar. "Must have tilted a small cake of ice," he chuckled. Then, as he lifted the hatch: "By Jove! No, it wasn't. It was a skin-boat full of natives! There they are in the water! Watch them scramble back into their boat.
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