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cult, I pulled on my deerskin kooletah
ljacket] and combination deerskin
boots and trousers and lay down on
| the snow in the ice Of one of of the
sledges. Here I was perfectly warm,
though the temperature during the
| night was 3D' t'elow zero; but finding It
Impossible 10 protect myself from the
annoyance of the drift, which eddied
about the s,edge and blew in my face
spite of every effort. ! changed my
position toward midnight Ifo--ss-sses-ssaassss---
recumbent one on top of sledge.
Our Eskimo companions and one or
two Of the party slept 10 the igloo, the
others in the little tent aud the sleep
ing bags. AS I changed my position
the brilliant, scintilating stars over
head, and the siuuous white drift ban
ners of the great ice, wakened to life
by the sibIiaut breath of the northeast
wind, rustling in and out through the
sleeping epcampment. formed u scene
strikingly characteristic Of this great
white desert.
THE DOG DISEASE GETS FIRM FOOT
HOLD.
The following march was only seven
miles, and this distance was made with
the utmost difficulty. Entrikin's feet
were much worse, and two more OF the
dogs with piblockto had bitten nearly
every dog in the pack. One Of these
dogs, the Agitator, q powerful big vol
fish brute, the last survivor OF the dogs
purchased on the Labrador coast, pre-
sented just before he was killed as
savage and CORY spectacle as | have
ever seen. He had run amuck through
the team, and, half blind as be was
with froth and blood, had been mencisz
lessly torn and shaken '5uf!sa>ssIg Cuat
he had attacked. As the rire was
leveled at him he stood exhausted and
painting, with head and neck swollen
to twice their natural size, ears torn in
shreds, eyes bloodshot, bloody foam
dripping from his jaws, and his entire
body feeked with foam and blood and
clotted tufts of fur. Though so weak
that he could scarcely stand, he was
just gathering himself for another
spring at the dog nearest him, when
the bullet passed through his brain,
and he collapsed in q quivering heap
on the blood d-bespattered snow.
THE PARTY TURNS BACK.
It was very evident that the dread
disease had gained firm foothold IN
my pack, and the end conld not be far
away.
On April 10, after taking account Of
stock, so to speak, and turning the
whole matter over carefully, I decided
that it was not advisable TO attempt to
proceed any further this season. AS to
the condition of my party, EntrlkIn
was now entirely out Of the race With
his frosted feet and must return TO the
lodge. Baldwin was not entirely re-
covered fram an attack of cramps as
the last camp, and I feared another
storm would bring them on again.
Clark had both heels and great toes
frost bitten and was having daily at
tacks of bleeding from the nose. All
however, showed true grit, and were
willing to push on. But the crushing
blow was the existence in my pack Of
the dreaded and incurable piblocto, in.
duced by the extreme exposure Of the
past four weeks, and>which, with con-
tinued WORK and exposure, might easily
reduce my pack to half its present
uuuOeI, VI ef Gu eAUS1LAiA-VSl ~ SHIieiS'
Another serious feature of the case
was the lateness of the season. Instead
of being at Independence Bay on the
lst Of April, as had planned, it was
now the 10th, and we We're onlJ one'
fourth of the way there. While ap-
preciated the fact that two or perhaps
three of us-could probably get as far as
Independence Bay even in the existing
state of affairs, anything beyond that
would be entirely out Of the question,
and to do even this would consume all
of my pemmican, alcohol, end other
provisions, which could not be replaced,
and would thus destroy every chance
of second attempt next spring. So
we regretfully turned our footsteps back
to Anniversary Lodge.