. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. able night under canvas. The tentwas not large enough for us, yet all four of us occu-pied it and our breathing filled it with condensa-tion. Our dogs, too, were rather sluggish thefirst day out, for they had been well stuffed withfood during the time of our enforced delay incamp. We welcomed daylight the next morning andturned out at four oclock, and after our standardration of tea, biscuit and pemmican, were soon onthe march. All hands were glad to be off -and thedogs, too, worked bett
. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. able night under canvas. The tentwas not large enough for us, yet all four of us occu-pied it and our breathing filled it with condensa-tion. Our dogs, too, were rather sluggish thefirst day out, for they had been well stuffed withfood during the time of our enforced delay incamp. We welcomed daylight the next morning andturned out at four oclock, and after our standardration of tea, biscuit and pemmican, were soon onthe march. All hands were glad to be off -and thedogs, too, worked better than on the first day, sowe made good progress. In most places the roadhad been destroyed by the storm of the past fewdays, so the work of the preliminary sledging par-ties was of little use to us, though sometimes wecould make out where the trail led; chiefly, how-ever, we had to make our own way, guided by theempty pemmican tins and flags, where these stiUstayed up, and by the sight of Wrangell Island tothe southwest. We managed to keep the generaldirection of the travelled road from camp to camp,. fM £ O o 03 O 0) .^ ft So P .5. 2 ^^ 03 t/1 c .a o rS i3 .2 o 03 pq [-1 OS o a OVER THE ICE 145 though it often took time and care to study out theway to go. At the fourth camp I found a note from Munrosaying that they had been held up there by openwater and a heavy gale, the same, evidently, whichhad detained us at Shipwreck Camp, and that theyhad shot a polar bear near by. This I knew evenbefore I read the note for I found a big piece ofbear-meat that they had left in the igloo for had been unable to take all the pemmicanat the cache here along with them; we picked upa few tins of it but could not take any more, forwe were already overbiu-dened. Munros note further said that the trail beyondwas badly smashed but we went on as fast as wecould, for we wanted to catch up with Kerdrillo andI was anxious to know that the advance party wascontinuing to get along well. At qu
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