Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . en miles in diameter and about fouror five times the area of Norway , many months afterward,when the Mary Sachs had joined us,we named this island after her captain,Peter Bernard. Long before our arrival in BanksIsland summer had commenced. Therolling hills were beautifully green, re-minding one of western Dakota or east-ern Montana. The rivers had been pour-ing thaw-waters into the sea for morethan a month and their comparativewarmth had melted the ice in the vicin-ity of land, so that it was only on promon-tori
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . en miles in diameter and about fouror five times the area of Norway , many months afterward,when the Mary Sachs had joined us,we named this island after her captain,Peter Bernard. Long before our arrival in BanksIsland summer had commenced. Therolling hills were beautifully green, re-minding one of western Dakota or east-ern Montana. The rivers had been pour-ing thaw-waters into the sea for morethan a month and their comparativewarmth had melted the ice in the vicin-ity of land, so that it was only on promon-tories that a landing could be madewithout the use of the boat. There wasjust enough driftwood on the beach sothat the killing of seals for fuel was nolonger necessary, and we discontinued it,for the hunting of caribou on the grassyhill slopes is both easier and pleasanterthan crawling like a snake over theslushy ice surface toward a dozing first we needed a little seal blubberto eat with the caribou meat, for caribouare thin in the early spring. Until the. THE SEAL-BLUBBER STOVE WITH SCATTERED SEAL AND BEAR MEAT ONTHE EDGE OF THE WIDE LEAD THAT DELAYED THE PARTY ELEVEN DAYSThe white belt on the horizon is ice blink—a reflection in the sky of ice beyond the horizon SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF THE ARCTIC 41 r middle of July we killed no more thanwe needed for food from day to day, butin the latter part of July and throughoutAugust we killed as many as we couldcomfortably take care of, for the lengthof the hair made the skins suitable forclothing and the meat had become fatenough to be good eating. The bulls atthis season aremuch fatter andbetter eating thanthe cows, and theolder they are themore desirable forfood. For econ-omy in ammuni-tion, and also be-cause of theexcellence of theirmeat, we killedmainly old males,and by the firstpart of Septemberwe had accumu-lated the driedmeat of forty bullsand about half aton of back fat. Before leavingAlaska we hadgiven instructionsthat
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