A few hares were secured, but musk-oxen seemed to have vanished.

This troubled me, for it raised a fear that the hunting of the former expedition had killed off the game, or driven it away.

The Eskimo women set their fox traps all along the shore for five miles or so each way, and they were more successful than the men, obtaining some thirty or forty foxes in the course of the fall and winter.

The women also went on fishing trips to the ponds of the neighborhood, and brought in many mottled beauties.
The Eskimo method of fishing is interesting.

The fish in that region will not rise to bait but are captured by cutting a hole in the ice and dropping in a piece of ivory carved in the shape of a small fish.