Word: bowhead
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...there is said to be a mountain of jade in the wild hinterland; that Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight beyond Barrow is strong evidence of land in the Arctic "blind-spot," fly so thickly and so low that the natives can lasso them with weighted strings; that the last suicidal migration of the Alas kan lemmings* was in 1888; that, protected against...
...successively commandered the whaling steamers, Jessie H. Freeman, Belvidere, Navarch, and Bowhead. It was on the latter that he was frozen in for thirty months close to the north pole. He and his crew were saved form starvation only by the superhuman efforts of the Eskimos. On this voyage as on many others, Captain Cook was accompanied by his wife...