. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. at various places along the shore since thedate of the Mikkelson expedition, and Ole Ander-son, another experienced man. Stefansson in-tended to go on for fifteen days march before turn-ing back and hoped to do by ice travel what theKarluk had been prevented from doing—^to dis-cover new land along the 141st Meridian.^ Stef-ansson had not since been heard from, McConnellsaid, but there should be plenty of bear and seal forhis party to subsist on and it was likely that in anyevent they cou
. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. at various places along the shore since thedate of the Mikkelson expedition, and Ole Ander-son, another experienced man. Stefansson in-tended to go on for fifteen days march before turn-ing back and hoped to do by ice travel what theKarluk had been prevented from doing—^to dis-cover new land along the 141st Meridian.^ Stef-ansson had not since been heard from, McConnellsaid, but there should be plenty of bear and seal forhis party to subsist on and it was likely that in anyevent they could make their way to Banks Point Barrow, too, in the Bear we foundseveral shipwrecked crews waiting for a chance togo south. We landed the mails and the variousother things we had brought for the station thereand then, finding that, as I have related, theschooner that we had found aground had floated,we headed at last for Wrangell Island. I was be-coming more and more anxious to get there and 1 stefansson was successful in his quest for new land and, in 1915and 1916, reported his 6D C ^ £5 3 03 ^ t4 — m bo ^< ?A u O t3 J3 Q = fe ^ °JI w O (a « 3; -a S o fa [-1 ^ « ^ ^vi <! S -a a ?a -s tZ3 i -^^ s§1?sis 0O -dH^ Ph o ja ?13 u o I. t4 t^S S C a: H ^1 a . OFF FOR WRANGELL ISLAND 307 hoped that meanwhile the Russian ships or one ofthe wabus-hunting boats had been there and takenoff the men. It was getting late and before manyweeks the ice might close in around the island andrender it inaccessible to a ship, but it was not alto-gether this danger alone that worried me but alsothe feeling that the longer the men were kept onthe island the greater would be their suspense andthe harder it would be for them to keep up theirspirits. Of covuse, until some one came to rescuethem they would not know whether I had ever suc-ceeded in reaching the Siberian coast or day of this suspense must be telling on themand bringing them face to face with the
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