. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. ween ten and eleven on the nightof the twenty-fifth, for instance, the ice began tocrack in the vicinity of our camp and from time totime we in our igloo would feel severe shocks, asof an earthquake. Through the snow walls I couldhear the Eskimo out on the ice. Kataktovick wentout to see what was up and came back at once totell me that a crack two or three feet wide hadopened through the middle of Kerdrillos igloo,which was about five, yards away from ours, andthat they had nearly lost t
. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. ween ten and eleven on the nightof the twenty-fifth, for instance, the ice began tocrack in the vicinity of our camp and from time totime we in our igloo would feel severe shocks, asof an earthquake. Through the snow walls I couldhear the Eskimo out on the ice. Kataktovick wentout to see what was up and came back at once totell me that a crack two or three feet wide hadopened through the middle of Kerdrillos igloo,which was about five, yards away from ours, andthat they had nearly lost their little baby but for-tunately had got out before anything happened tothem. The ice continued to crack about us all throughthe night. There was no crack in our igloo so Igave it to Keruk and her children for the rest ofthe night and we walked back and forth, waitingfor daylight. It was not very dark for the starswere shining brilliantly. The temperature wasabout forty below zero. All around us the ice wasbreaking and at times we were on a floating island. As soon as daylight came I sent McKinlay and. a5 W O O OVER THE ICE 149 Kataktovick, with all the dogs and an empty sledge,back to Shipwreck Camp for about thirty gallonsof the oil that we had left there. They had all thedogs from the three sledges and could make goodprogress. While McKialay and Kataktovick were goneKerdi-illo and I went on a scouting tour ahead fora way to see how the road looked. We found thatthe storm had destroyed the old trail and that thetrail newly made by the Munro-Hadley party wasalready changed somewhat,.though as yet not verymuch. While we were on this scout KerdriUocaught a glimpse, through our binoculars, of twomen of the advance party, just visible against thesky-line on a high rafter eight or ten miles we came back to camp, I had Kerdrillo buildanother igloo for his party. During the day theice had aU closed up again. About half past three the next afternoon Mc-Kinlay and Kataktovic
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