Evening star., 1915-09-19
Failed to Make Shore.

| The party did not succeed in making
! shore. The hunters reached Amoullk
| tok, or Duck Island, narrow spit OF
sand thrown up by the movement OF
| heavy pack ice. This is about 100 yards
| wide, mile long and about four miles
from the mainland. At the end of two
| days the explorer decided to send Nc
| Connell back for two more hunters
That night a gale came up and for -four
| days it blew continuously, and all the
| ice was blown away, and there was
| nothing on every side but the open sea
| For seven days the party lived on
Duck Island, and at the end of that
| time the ice had formed sufficiently to
allow them to get ashore. AS the gaze
| had been from the northeast Stefansson
! concluded that the karluk had drifted
| to Point Barrow. For that point the
men set out. and in nine days they
| walked 143 miles over the ice At the
point disappointment awaited them
| The karluk, caught in the gale and the
drifting ice. had not brought UP there
| She had drifted clean past. and. as II
afterward proved. to her doom. Stefans-
son, however. predicted this, for he
thought the chances were very slight
against her being caught in the ice be-
fore spring. She had been seen to go
past. natives said, week before the
shore party came in sight.
At Point Barrow Stefansson decided to
| take his men to Collinson point, some
| 300 miles farther east, which he heard
! the party of DR.. Anderson, that had
gone north in the gasoline Schooners
| Mary Sachs and Alaska, had reached in
safety. The men left on their 3OO-mlle
| Journey across the ice November 8,
| 1913. Stefansson then believed that the
| Karluk could not be depended upon to
| come back for them.
Buys Gasoline Schooner.
| 1t took until December Is to get to
tafn
son made the journey to Clarence bay,
where he purchased the gasoline
schooner North Star, and also outfits
and provisions. The party then jour
neyed from Collinson point to Martins
point. When they reached the latter
| place Stesansson halted and sent Nc
| Connell back 20 Barrow point for the
| mail.
March -. 1914. Stefansson decided to
set out into the uneXplored north, IN
| search of any land within $50 or 200
| miles 1t was the day after the party
| started that Mcconnell returned to find
| Martins point deserted. He started after
| them and overlook the explorers next
Gay. The party consisted of eight men
| and four dog teams. StefansSolls IN
| tention was to go north over the ice
| and to carry freight as far as possible.
! From March % and until April Nc
| Connell and his companions were WIN
Stefansson. On the latter date Stefans-
| son decided that the sleGs were IN TOO
| bad shape. for a long journey and so
| he sent all back except Ole Anderson
and Storker StOrkersen, who are trad
ers and trapperS, personal lflehdS Oh
| Stefansson, and men of experience in
the north He had with him also two
| dog teams.
"I will continue north in search OF
| land. and if at the end of fifteen days
| travelling | have not sighted any, then
| I will turn back" he said to McCon-
| nell.
| The latter records that this was in
! 7O:2G:4 north latitude and 140:30:1 west
| longitude.
| When the three men set out they had
| with them six of the best dogs OF the
| nineteen they had brought from Mar
| tins point. They had also one sled, on
which they packed 900 pounds of pro-
| visions. or enough to last them sixty
| days and the dogs fifty days. They
| were also equipped with two rifles and
400 rounds of ammunition.