Sonntag.--Twilight increasing.--A Deer-Hunt.--The Arctic Foxes.--The Polar Bear.--Adventures with Bears.--Our New Esquimaux.--Esquimau Dress.--A Snow House.--Esquimau Implements.--A Walrus Hunt 236 CHAPTER XX. Looking for the Sun.--The Open Sea.--Birds 248 CHAPTER XXI. Sunrise. 251 CHAPTER XXII. Spring Twilight.--Arrival of Esquimaux.--Obtaining Dogs.--Kalutunah, Tattarat, Myouk, Amalatok and his Son.--An Arctic Hospital.--Esquimau Gratitude 255 CHAPTER XXIII. Kalutunah returns.--An Esquimau Family.--The Family Property.--The Family Wardrobe.--Myouk and his Wife.--Peter's Dead Body found.--My New Teams.--The Situation.--Hunting.--Subsistence of Arctic Animals.--Pursuit of Science under Difficulties.--Kalutunah at Home.--An Esquimau Feast.--Kalutunah in Service.--Recovering the Body of Mr. Sonntag.--The Funeral.--The Tomb 265 CHAPTER XXIV. Starting on my First Journey.--Object of the Journey.--A Mishap.--A Fresh Start.--The First Camp.--Hartstene's Cairn.--Exploring a Track.--A New Style of Snow-Hut.--An Uncomfortable Night.--Low Temperature.--Effect of Temperature on the Snow.--Among the Hummocks.--Sighting Humboldt Glacier.--The Track impracticable to the Main Party.--Van Rensselaer Harbor.--Fate of the _Advance_.--A Drive in a Gale 277 CHAPTER XXV. Sending forward Supplies.--Kalutunah as a Driver.--Kalutunah civilized.--Mr. Knorr.--Plan of my Proposed Journey.--Preparing to set out.--Industrious Esquimau Women.--Death and Burial of Kablunet.--The Start 290 CHAPTER XXVI. The First Day's Journey.--A Fall of Temperature.--Its Effect upon the Men.--Camped in a Snow-Hut.--The Second Day's Journey.--At Cairn Point.--Character of the Ice.--The Prospect.--Storm-stayed.--The Cooks in Difficulty.--Snow-Drift.--Violence of the Gale.--Our Snow-Hut 297 CHAPTER XXVII. The Storm continues.--At Work.--Among the Hummocks.--Difficulties of the Track.--The Snow-Drifts.--Slow Progress.--The Smith Sound Ice.--Formation of the Hummocks.--The Old Ice-Fields.--Growth of Ice-Fields.--Thickness of Ice.--The Prospect 307 CHAPTER XXVIII.