. Outing. .22 cartridges which had gone bad and some rifle cartridges which were asgood as ever, one large and one smallfry pan, and one large box of dried wal-rus and narwhal meat—the dog pemmi-can customarily made by white men inthe Arctic—but to the great disappoint-ment of all, no tobacco. Though the pemmican was intendedfor dogs, the Eskimos seemed to enjoyit immensely. Everything was carrieddown to camp, and there, in accordancewith Dr. Cooks request, I divided be-tween his two men, Etukishuk and Ah-welah, such things as I did not need my-self. Here in our camp near the cache wehalted fo
. Outing. .22 cartridges which had gone bad and some rifle cartridges which were asgood as ever, one large and one smallfry pan, and one large box of dried wal-rus and narwhal meat—the dog pemmi-can customarily made by white men inthe Arctic—but to the great disappoint-ment of all, no tobacco. Though the pemmican was intendedfor dogs, the Eskimos seemed to enjoyit immensely. Everything was carrieddown to camp, and there, in accordancewith Dr. Cooks request, I divided be-tween his two men, Etukishuk and Ah-welah, such things as I did not need my-self. Here in our camp near the cache wehalted for seven hours. I slept indif-ferently, weary as I was, and put in amiserable night, owing to the constantcracking of the ice wTith loud reports,sometimes directly beneath us, wThen itwTould tremble and threaten to swallowus up. The Eskimos were all sleepingsoundly when I arose and got my oilstove going, but they were soon up, pre-paring the sledges for the advance. Again we came upon open water and 275. Copyright, igog, by Harry MUSK OXEN OF THE TRIP BROUGHT TO BAY BY THE DOGS. were compelled to turn a long distanceout of our course to get around , the ice was in the finest pos-sible condition, and we were able tocover in this march twenty miles by thechart, though we halted once to killseals, a number of which were to beseen on the ice, as we needed them bad-ly for dog food. I succeeded in gettingtwo and the Eskimos brought in fiveamong them. At length we reached the head ofFlagler Fjord, and left the ice for theland. High winds had swept the rockspretty clear of snow, and traveling be-came, therefore, exceedingly bad. Thecountry was very rough and we couldsee only a short distance ahead, but thereseemed small prospect of was so little snow, in fact, thatit became evident that we should have toLighten our komatiks of every pound wecould spare from our equipment, dis-pensing with even thing not absolutelynecessary to our existence,
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