The San Francisco call., 1898-02-14

several natives had gathered around to take an account of his stock and to wonder what such an interesting young man could have done that he should have been marooned on such a barren shore. Jarvis upon landing be- gan to talk to the Eskimos with his forefinger, pointing out that he wanted the goods taken in their kyacks to the village. They promptly began loading the skin boats. They are an obedient race. I could not help contrasting their behavior with what one might expect from Caucasians who had corner in boats.
 Meanwhile the boat was unloaded and the supplies were carried about fifty feet up the beach to be clear from the rising tide. Then I had the men lash down the broken mast thwart with the help of a few nails borrowed from the overland expedition. Then, stay ing the mast while we bade them good by, good l uck and godspeed, and showing off from the beach, we ran be- fore the gale off to the ship.
 The first boat had in the interval got hopelessly entangled in the ice, making it necessary for the ship to get under way to pick 1t up. They had accom- plished this. and were again anchored within the line of ice when We came along. But jammed the boat into the drifting mass we'll ahead Of the vessel, took the sail, and with the oars just managed to get within reach of a line from her as we were swept by. After we had eaten our dinner, the remain ing articles having been collected, our anchorage was shifted again, so as to bring it further to windward of the landing place and clear of ice, so that the boat might make a good start So at about 2:30 D. m. we started again in the same boat, whose mast step had been repaired by the carpenter. I nev- CT saw boat so loaded. There were two long frame sleds, almost as long as the boat itself, seven big dogs, sev- eral boxes of dried fish, feed for dogs, sundry other packages and the crew of five men and myself. There was no chance to use the oars. and the wind was still bowling down from the noun tains. We showed off, with sail reefed, sliding off to leeward almost as much as we were ahead. We were so clus- tered that I could not place the men and dogs so as to balance the boat well for sailing. To increase the disorder two of the dogs began fighting. The men tried to stop them, at which I was surprised, for it is not the nature of men to stop dog fight.
 Presently, however, the wind began to lull as it came more under the lee nf ha nd C1 ho of in the sail. In due time we reached the place where We had landed before, but the travellers were trending toward the village. Finally, seeing no sign from the boat of our friends, and ob- serving that the sun was pretty near the horizon, I decided to land, espe- cially since my orders were to put the things ashore wherever possible, whether the people were near or not. Landing, then, at the first place where we could get in comfortably. saw tracks of the travellers trending toward the village. Of course, I knew that they would not come for the sleds and things until the next day, perhaps not for couple of days. But the supplies were considerably nearer them on the beach anywhere than they would be on the Bear, especially if we had to get out of there during the night. And the dogs would live for at least four days without food. So ashore everything went. I hope that Jarvis has them now. But I did hate to leave those poor dogs cut there alone in the snow.
 Returning the wind freshened again and as we went alongside the ship she was getting up her anchor. At 4:10 we were under way, but the water shoaling we anchored again at 4:55 to wait for daylight. If any of The Calls readers are planning to take any little excur- sions of similar nature it will be in- teresting to know what the argonauts took with them. There were fifty pounds of beans, fifty pounds of pork, two cases of canned meat, two cases of hard bread, twenty-four pounds of ba- con. one large knife, half-dozen table spoons half-doZen teaspoons, half dozen knives and forks, two rifles, one shotgun, 400 rifle and 100 rounds shot gun ammunition, two sleds, seven dogs, four sleeping bags, two cases coal oil, one lantern, 300 pounds fish for the dogs, one camp stove and outfit, two sacks flour, one package leaf tobacco and one large box of cigarettes
 It is intended to take with them only enough provisions to last from one vil- lage to another, getting fresh supply at each stopping place. Much of these supplies may be used in trading with the natives for dogs, etc, before start