The creature behaved in an extraordinary manner, acting, in fact, just like the Eskimo dogs when those creatures run amuck.

The Eskimos say that in the Whale Sound region foxes often seem to go mad in the same way and sometimes attempt to break into the igloos.

This affliction from which arctic dogs and foxes suffer, while apparently a form of madness, does not seem to have any relation to rabies since it does not appear to be contagious or infectious.
The spring weather, though unmistakably the real thing, was fickle on the whole.

On Sunday, May 16, for example, the sun was hot and the temperature high, and the snow all about us was disappearing almost like magic, pools of water forming about the ship; but the next day we had a stiff southwest gale with considerable wet snow.

On the whole, it was a very disagreeable day.
On the 18th the engineer's force began work on the boilers in earnest.
Four days later two Eskimos returned from MacMillan, whom they had left at Cape Morris Jesup on the Greenland coast.