. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. dles, a gallon ofalcohol, matches, snow-knives and sleeping robes. The rest of us had two sledges, one with threedogs, driven by Kataktovick, the other with fourdogs, driven by myself. On Kataktovicks sledgewere three cases of man pemmican, thirty-six casesof milk, two cases of biscuit, ten gallons of oil and2,400 tea tablets. My own sledge carried fourcases of man pemmican, two cases of biscuit, thirty-six cases of milk, twelve tins of coal oil, 2,400 teatablets, one tent, matches, one
. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. dles, a gallon ofalcohol, matches, snow-knives and sleeping robes. The rest of us had two sledges, one with threedogs, driven by Kataktovick, the other with fourdogs, driven by myself. On Kataktovicks sledgewere three cases of man pemmican, thirty-six casesof milk, two cases of biscuit, ten gallons of oil and2,400 tea tablets. My own sledge carried fourcases of man pemmican, two cases of biscuit, thirty-six cases of milk, twelve tins of coal oil, 2,400 teatablets, one tent, matches, one Primus stove, oneaxe, two pickaxes, candles, snow-knives, one gallonof alcohol, one pair of snowshoes, one pair of ski,one Marmlicher rifle, 250 rounds of ammunition,one Colt revolver, 100 rounds of ammimition, sleep-ing-robes, Iope and spare harness. We had toleave a Peary sledge in camp because there werenot dogs enough to make a team to haul it. As itwas, our three sledges, with their four-hundred-pound loads, were heavily burdened for the dogswe had, with some of them in a half-crippled A \ Photograph copyriahteJ. 1914, iome» /j™.., Nome MrrGPi Keruk carried her baby, Mugpi, on her back all the wayto Wrangell Island. See page I4I OVER THE ICE 143 At about noon we finally got away—Katakto-vick, McKinlay, Mamen and I. McKinlay, wear-ing man-harness, helped pull my sledge, while Iguided and drove the dogs. On account of hisdislocated knee-cap which bothered him constantlyand once on the march got out of place and had tobe put back, with strenuous efforts on my part andmuch silent suffering on his, Mamen could not helppuU Kataktovicks sledge but had to limp alongsideand make his way as best he could. He chafedvery much over his temporary uselessness and Ihad to cheer him up as well as I could by telling himconstantly what wonderful work he had alreadyaccomplished. We placed a record in a copper tank on the ice,telling where the ship was lost and when we le
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