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LIFE WITH THE ESQUIMAUX.
8.15 a.m. though in our passage across Bear Sound we had but just escaped destruction.
I may here state that the whole party at Cape True were in no want of food while I was there. Walrus was abundant, and was, indeed, almost exclusively our diet. We had walrus brains for supper; stewed walrus, or walrus boiled, for dinner, but always walrus, and no bread.
MY SLEDGE-LOG, LINE, AND REEL.
