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

ft ur ESkNuO uuutSlS NpptNN tuSAn selves energetic,,lly to thc tisk. but r.,ne of our white men had I.sl per sunal experience in seal hunting, and .nly one white man showed any apti- ,ude for the work. Seals were scarce and we had little success. The ship appeared to us in ali probability fast tor the winter, and some attempt had f., be made to get caribou or fish from shore. How to go about this was a serious matter. While all were good seal hunters, only one of the four h:skimo men knew anything of deer hunting. and even he was compara- tive stranger in the country. With .uribou as scarce as they have now become on the north coast of Alaska. Il stranger had littlo chance of finding any.
 The only Eskimo who knows any thing about the country was the wife of the deer hunter. and even she had reyer been east of the Colville river where the chance for deer is best, and. n she was our only scamstress and had to make clothes for the entire ships company, she could not be| spared. While we drifted in the ice she would continue to be the most important tbecause most usefuD per sen on board, and, of course. her hus- band would not go. ashore without her and the children.
 Facing a Crisis.
 There seemed no way. therefore. but that should go myself to try to get meat and fish. alone had experience in hunting and knowledge of the coun- try In 1908 and 1909, had shot cari- lou here and there from Cape lfaIkctt t. FIaxman island: I knew all tn" fishing places and trapping rcndrz- vous of the local Eskimos- few nf which are easy to find f.'r H. stranger -and could possibly not only huy meat and fish fir m any people wc might find. but probably secure tho services of useful local hunters and scsmtresses when any other member Of our expedition might fail to do so. for knew every Eskimo in the coun- trv personally.
 Captain Bartlett volunteered in gn. Clearly, one of us had to go. as no one else in our party had the nrccs- sary Arctic experience to make the undertaking free from danger; clear ly, one of us had to stay by the ship. By my experience in this particular locality and my knowledge of thc in- habitants and whore to find thcn.. was self.chosen for tho work.
 took with me Jenncss. Mcconnell. and Wilkins to give them a little eX- perience in sled travel, and the Point Hope Eslsimos. Pauyurak and Asat- shak. We took two slcds and twelve dogs, and expected to hunt caribou two weeks inland from Deecly Point and make trip 40 miles southwest to the fishing place at which W" had our winter base in 1908.
 stsfansson Leads Landing Party.
 We started the afternoon of Sept. g.. The ice was not really rough, hut stlll the going was bad bccausc the pressure ridges consisted If glare pieces of leo not cemcntcd hy snow. Trey slipped about under tl,c f.'t of men and dogs and caused tho slcds to upset frequently. To took us part of two days to get ashore on the most westerly of the Jones islands about six miles northwest of Bccchy Point.
 The young icc between the islands and the mainland truned out t1 hc too thin to mako a crossing over seem safe. 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 Q moderate northeast breeze. increased to a gale. and broad strips of water-sky began to appear offshore. It was not. under those conditions, advisable to send any out on the ice.
 karluk Disappears.
 The gale continued three days. at the end of which there was left only land-fioe of perhaps n mile In width; outside of this the ocean WAS as open as in summer. with here and there an ice cake. or a strip of icc. but nothing to interfere with the progress o. steamer. or even sailing ship. Tho ice. which had thought likely to stay all winter, was gone. and with 1t the Karluk probably. unless the icc in which she was embedded may have