The Nome daily nugget., 1914-05-06
Continued from Yesterday.
 Hunting for Food.

S'lNcS ch"TBctlcallN lp tho task, but none of our white men had had per sonal experience in seal hunting, and only one white man showed any apti- tude for the work. Seals were scarce and we had little success The ship appeared to us in all probability fast for the winter and some attempt had t. he made to get caribou or fish from sh9re. How to go about this was serious matter. While all were good /seal hunters, only one of the four Eskimo men knew anything of deer hunting, and even he was a compara- tive stranger in the country. With caribou as scarce as they have now become on the north coast of Alaska, any.
 The only Eskimo who knows any thing about the country was the wife of the deer hunter and even she had never been east of the Colville river where the chance for deer is best, and, a. she was our only seamstress and had to make clothes for the entire ships company, she could not be spared While we driftcd in the ice she would continue to be the most important (because most usefuD per sen on board, and, of course, her hus- band would/not go, ashore without her and the children.
 / Facing a Crisis.
 Tbere seemed no way, therefore, but tnI 1 should go myself to try to get meat and fish. I alone had experience An hunting and knowledge of the coun- try. Tn 1908 and 1909, had shot cari- lou here and there from Cape TTakett tG Flaxman island; I knew all the fishing places and trapping rendez- vous of the local Esklmos-few of which are easy to find for a stranger and I could possibly not only buy meat and fish fir m any people we might find, but probably secure the services of useful local hunters and scamtresses when any other memb Ar o1 our expedition might fail to do so fol I knew every Eskimo in the coun- trv personally.
 Captain Bartlett volunteered to go. Clearly, one of us had to go, as no one else in our party had the neces- sary Arctic experience to make the undertaking free from danger; clear ", one of us had to stay by the ship. By my experience in this particular locality and my knowledge of the in- habitants and where to find them, I was self-chosen for the work.
 I took with me Jenncss, Mcconnell. and Wilkins to give them little ex- perience in sled travel, and the Point Hope Eskimos, Pauyurak and Asat- shak. We took two sleds and twelve dogs, and expected to hunt caribou two weeks inland from Beechy Point and make a trip 40 miles southwest to the fishing place at which we had our winter base in 1908.
 stefansson Leads Landing Party.
 We started the afternoon of Sept. 2t. The ice was not really rough, but still the going was bad because the pressure ridges consisted of glare pieces of ice not cemented by snow. They slipped about under tho feet of men and dogs and caused the sleds to upset frequently To took us part ot two days to get ashore on the most westerly of the Jones islands about six miles northwest of Beechy Point.
 The young ice between the islands . and the mainland truned out to be too thin to make Il crossing over seem safe. l decided, therefore. to send Mcconnell and Asatshak back to the Karluk to get certain things We want ed, but that night the wind, which had for several days been moderate northeast breeze, increased to a gale and broad strips of water sky began tO appear OllSHOTe. It was IlOt, uuueI those conditions, advisable to sent any out on the ice.
 kariuk Disappears.
 The gale continued three days, al the end of which there was left only a land-fo of perhaps a mile in width; outside of this the ocean was as oper as in summer, with here and there an ice cake, or strip of ice, but nothing to interfere with the progress o: steamer. or even a sailing ship The ice, which had thought likely tt stay all winter was gone, and with | the Karluk probably, unless the ice fl which she was embedded may hav' broken so as to allow her to get under
 
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