Evening star., 1915-09-19

| biscuits. He added: I'VE are limiting
ourselves to one biscuit per meal re
Gently, in order that the ice party may
| have a good supply
| Continuing, the diary says:
"Johansen took sounding after
breakfast and found $50 fathoms. He
wanted Stefansson to send party
| south under Storkensen and another
north under himself. but the chief was
| AFRAID of getting separated from his
! men again. l think. as he would not
| send them away from the camp. There
was lots of time to have done this in,
and every one was willing to go.
! This is very interesting spot. this
continental shelf. and l would like to
see the professor get a full series OF
soundings before he goes ashore, as he
has not been able to secure much sci
| entific data to offset what he charac-
| terizes as the hardships of the trip.
Going abruptly from 80 and 35 to 20.
, 40 and even $50 fathoms is enough to
make even an ordinary man sit up and
! take notice.
| There was very little to do. as we
lsh writing. Storkensen took an OBJ
servation-70 degrees 20 minutes sec
onds north latitude. 140 degrees 30
minutes I seconds west longitude-so
we Will probably land on Canadian soil.
| II southeast wind does not carry us
west. We are taking two and
| one half bundles of fish and some oat
meal and lard for the dogs, and plenty
l
selves: They are taking all but twelve
pounds OF the pemmican. as their fuel
will not last long. Ours will probably
! last ten days. and we ought to be
| ashore by that time.
Commanded Return Trip.
Crawford. who took Capt. Bernard's
place after he was injured, is to have
charge of the returning party. Johan-
sen IS TO have twenty hours at his dis
| posal Tor scientific research, and at the
same time we are to travel as rapidly
as possible due south. so as to reach
| snore before a southeast or southwest
M,ho comes along and blows us out to
! sea. as 1t did off Martins point.
| stefansson called us all into the tent
at one time or another for general and
spec1fic instructions. Just before start
ing ne called in Crawford. Johansen
and me- 1t one time and read the writ
| ten instructions that Crawford is to be
governed by.
Il then reminded him of something
de. ne naa forgotten to write to DR.. An
derson about, and the start was DELAYED
| another half hour. We finally started
at 4:3o. Stefansson accompanied us a
niue way and then returned to camp,
was to take soundings every half
! mile or so while on the edge of the
shelf, but he did not attempt to do so
| we Went south about half mile and
!
prepared to take his first sounding. He
| only has about 145 fathoms of line, and
do not see how he is going to reach
| bottom.
When we stopped Crawford went to
the edge of the ice to test it's strength
ana lost his ice spear in the lead He
then went to look for A trail over a
pressure ridge while Johansen made
his preparations.
Disappeared. Into North.
After he had gone the handle of tho
spear appeared about six inches above
the water and l Immediately tied A
dog chain to twenty fathoms of sound
ing line and tried to lasso this yalua
hle piece of road-cuttine machinery.
After l had made half a dozen tests
ana mad got the range, about forty
!eet. the dogs suddenly took notion
70 start and off they went before
! the line and ran to stop them. and if
sank so Johansen now has only 125
lathoms: He could not reach bottom
with this. SO we proceeded
Stefansson started at 3 pm 7
watcned them through the glasses. The
last | saw of StefansSon was when he
topped pressure ridge. He did not
look behind or wave his hand, nor did
view
| Mcconnell returned to civilization
with those of Stefanssons party, and
those belonging to DR.. Anderson's
party joined him at Collinson point.
Afterward Mcconnell went to Clar-
ence bay and took an inventory of
articles on the North Star. Stefansson
mad intended this vessel to go to Banks
Land, there to await his coming In
stead of going there, however. DR. An
derson dispatched the Mary Sachs
The loss of the karluk is a separate
| cha pter. The vessel was broken up by
the ice and sank. The men got ashore
near Wrangell island. The party sepa-
trated and eight started for the island
When the remainder finally got there
! the eight had disappeared and their
fate is uncertain to this day Capt
! Bartlett and fifteen men got to the is
| land in February. Two men died in
camp, and the remainder were finally
rescued by Capt. Olaf Swenson Of the
schooner Wing and Wing