. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. y himself. We alsobuilt another house for the Eskimo. McKinlayafterwards drew a plan of Shipwreck Camp, aswe called it, which will show how our dwelling-places and supplies were arranged. So here we were, like the Swiss Family Robin-son, well equipped for comfortable living, waitinguntil the return of the sun should give us daylightenough for ice travel, which was altogether too ex-acting and dangerous to attempt in the dark. Idid not consider it wise to use up the energy ofmen and dogs
. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. y himself. We alsobuilt another house for the Eskimo. McKinlayafterwards drew a plan of Shipwreck Camp, aswe called it, which will show how our dwelling-places and supplies were arranged. So here we were, like the Swiss Family Robin-son, well equipped for comfortable living, waitinguntil the return of the sun should give us daylightenough for ice travel, which was altogether too ex-acting and dangerous to attempt in the dark. Idid not consider it wise to use up the energy ofmen and dogs when they were still unaccustomedto travelling over the sea-ice and before there waslight enough to make their work effective. The place where the ship had gone down wasfrozen over. The ice had simply opened for awhile and then closed up again, and young ice hadformed in the opening. On the thirteenth we began sewing and kept itup day in and day out. We had done a good dealof sewing on shipboard, but I told the men that wemust have plenty of fur clothing and skin-boots and (OTH J«\<r(/v«y re A,B e EsH-iMi ».«£ T> Si» Hej. 2 ShCT-Tint ?««<B ^cl Qoa ^IcoW JrDnts Hi--; 7w;ll*et«& St-| LL Sleiget n niissuy^ Ti«S»ci-Bo»f4 5 Sh,^ OUR HOME AT SHIPWRECK CAMP 99 that we had better do all the sewing we could. Wealso made tents and covers of light canvas for oursledges. We should of course be unable to do anysewing when we once got vmder way for the had lanterns and lamps for light in the varioushouses. Fur clothing is so heavy that it has to be sewedby hand but much of the other work was done onsewing-machines of which we had saved two, onefor the box-house and the other for the snow used one sewing-machine and Mr. Munrothe other. He was skilful at this as at a goodmany other useful things. He had formerlybeen a junior officer on the British warship Bain-how, which was afterwards transferred to theCanadian service; his term of enlistm
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