. Report of the cruise of the revenue cutter Bear and the overland expedition for the relief of the whalers in the Arctic ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898. s ocrDC < CD o D. 3 I-< CO UJ wo o CO. 5 o KO I- UJ z HI I oa h. UJ CRUISE OF THE U. S. REVENUE CUTTER BEAR. 133 Several days were spent in dragging the articles over the very roughice on sleds. On the 5th, 391 reindeer were transferred to Dr. Marsh, Govern-ment school-teacher, who also represented the Presbyterian he was without provisions to maintain the herders, and the campequipage was worn out,
. Report of the cruise of the revenue cutter Bear and the overland expedition for the relief of the whalers in the Arctic ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898. s ocrDC < CD o D. 3 I-< CO UJ wo o CO. 5 o KO I- UJ z HI I oa h. UJ CRUISE OF THE U. S. REVENUE CUTTER BEAR. 133 Several days were spent in dragging the articles over the very roughice on sleds. On the 5th, 391 reindeer were transferred to Dr. Marsh, Govern-ment school-teacher, who also represented the Presbyterian he was without provisions to maintain the herders, and the campequipage was worn out, no provision having been made for their sup-port by the mission, the following articles were given them from theships stores: 1,000 primers, 100 cartridges (.-45-70), 12-^ pounds pow-der, 2 brooms, 50 pounds soap, 2 axes, 1 shovel, 1 box copper rivets,1 tent, 1 camp stove, 200 pounds pork, 36 pounds coffee, 176 poundsbeans, and 140 pounds sugar. On the 7th an attempt was made to blast a channel through theground ice to the clear water inside. After expending 150 pounds ofpowder (100 pounds borrowed from the Newport) the attempt wasgiven up. The effect upon the ice, which averaged 30 feet in thick-ness, was so slight
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