. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. quired, and help ex-tinguish the fire. Our supplies on the big floe we left at first wherewe put them. Later on as we got opportunity webuilt a regular house, with walls composed of boxesand bags of coal, cases of biscuit, barrels and otherlarge articles, with lumber, of which we had puttwo thousand feet over on the ice, for flooring,scantling for roof and an extra suit of the shipssails to cover all. We banked it all around withsnow for warmth. There was a kind of vestibuleof snowbanks
. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. quired, and help ex-tinguish the fire. Our supplies on the big floe we left at first wherewe put them. Later on as we got opportunity webuilt a regular house, with walls composed of boxesand bags of coal, cases of biscuit, barrels and otherlarge articles, with lumber, of which we had puttwo thousand feet over on the ice, for flooring,scantling for roof and an extra suit of the shipssails to cover all. We banked it all around withsnow for warmth. There was a kind of vestibuleof snowbanks and a canvas door so weighted thatit would fly to of Later still, in addition tothis box-house, we built a large snow igloo. On the fourteenth for the first time we discon-tinued the regular nautical routine of watch andwatch and instead had a night watchman and a daywatchman, all taking turns at the work. We had a new dredge by this time, a larger andbetter one, made by Chief Engineer Munro, witha long line, for we were getting soundings of 1200fathoms. We brought up a brittle starfish on the. OJ M aW o a; b 03H a c £°S as o , is 3 fe O M 0,0 ?u o cd o ta ^?3 CD ^ 3o WE DRIFT AWAY FROM THE LAND 57 sixteenth and a spherical-shaped creature unknownto Murray, two or three inches in diameter. Mur-ray had a laboratory which we built on deck for hisspecimens, and it became a good deal of a museumbefore it finally went down with the ship. We got fur clothing enough made by the middleof the month for each man to have an outfit andI had all the skins we had left collected and put incanvas bags. The sailors were busy putting ourpemmican in 48-pound packages, sewed up in can-vas which later we used for dog harness; canvas isone thing the dogs wiU not ordinarily chew. On the twentieth we saw bear tracks near theship. There had been cracks in the ice and ribbonsof open water at some distance from the ship andthe Eskimo had continued their seal hunting withconsiderable success. T
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