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Do I just respond by saying in this instance it is functioning as a countable noun?

COOK'S ESKIMOS MADE MAP.; Told Peary They Went Only "Two Sleeps" from Land.

Special to The New York Times. SYDNEY, N.S., Sept. 18. -- "When you receive this," read a message received to-night from Commander Peary, dated at Battle Harbor, "I shall be coming to you every minute." The operator at Battle Harbor added that the Roosevelt sailed at 8 o clock this morning. A brisk northerly wind is blowing and this should at] the vessel in her run down the Labrador and Newfoundland coasts. The distance from BattJle Harbor t9 Sydney is 450 miles. If favorable weather; m continues the vessel may be expected { Tuesday afternoon. i Ilnder steam alone she can hardly make more than seven knots an hour, but sails set to a favorable wind sh would I doubtless reel oft at least two knots more. The St. John's Chronicle publishes what purports tb be an interview had by a special correspondent with Peary and Bartlett at Battle Harbor. In this article appears the following: "With respect to the Cook controversy Peary and Bartlett say hat Cook on his arrival at Etah in April last _Informed Harry Whitney, the muskox hunter, who wintered there, and BOatswain Inrphy, who was in charge of leary s depot of supplies at the same place, that he had reached the pole on April 21, the previous year, with his two Eskimos Etukishook and _ . "After Cook left Etah to continue to Melville-Bay to Upernavlk, the Danish settlement in Southern Greenland, these Eskimos remained in Etah and when Peary came south and cross-examined them, the natives who had previously confirmed Cook's story, broke and admitted that they had only gone 'two sleeps' from the land, and[ m that they had never been out of eight ofI m Cape Columbia at all. "They drew a ort of plan on paper if-{ ' for Pears, how they had tray-; e/ed."

ouyang wrote:I agree that there is nothing ungrammatical about delimiting uncountable nouns with certain adjective phrases, although I can't think of many other examples. e.g. a wild rice, an impressive work of art, a hard rain.