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confronted squarely by the consequences of their poor 

 judgment and unreasonableness, they drove back to the 

 ship to be fed and administered to by Kane and those 

 who had remained loyal. 



We found North Star Bay packed with ice, offering 

 but little evidence of a lead to Umanak, where our two 

 men were supposed to be living. Working to the west- 

 ward and zigzagging to the right and left, the boat crept 

 ever nearer, arriving at our destination on the afternoon 

 of the 11th. Tanquary was soon on board, and the 

 story was quickly told and verified by his very apparent 

 loss of weight. Lack of food, coupled with their anx- 

 iety over the uncertainty of their return home, had 

 left their marks. Thoughts of Etah with its well- 

 stocked larder had been with them constantly. They 

 saved even prune stones, cracking them and eating the 

 contents! A real full meal was onlv a dream and a 

 distant hope. Within a few minutes Ekblaw came fairly 

 tumbling from a botanical trip among the hills, with 

 his usually happy face looking considerably more so. 

 Seated on top of our cabin, how they did enjoy those 

 buckwheat cakes! And then, filled to repletion and 

 with faces sticky w^ith syrup, they both asked: 

 When are we going home.'^" 



Right now; just as soon as we can get out," was 

 the satisfactory reply. Plowing northward through 

 rain, wind, and ice, in twenty hours we were back at 

 Etah, stopping a few minutes at Cape Henson for 

 water. 



On the 21st, in an attempt to cross Smith Sound 

 through running ice, we nearly lost our power-boat. 

 Upon approaching Littleton Island, headed west, we 

 were tempted by a narrow lead to gain a large expanse 





