CHAPTER VIII 



AGAIN IX CAMP ON THE MALIGIAKFJORD 



E CAUSE of our failure to secure 

 caribou and the shortage in our 

 food supplies, we had returned 

 '^ « — to the base on the Maligiakf jord 



a full ten days earlier than ex- 

 pected. We were met by startling news. The 

 day following our departure our radio had picked 

 up a call from the Morrissey which was high and 

 dry on an uncharted reef near Xorthumberland 

 Island in latitude 77° North. Fortunately this 

 call was also picked up by Captain Mac]Millan on 

 the Saclicvi, which was at anchor in the harbor of 

 Sukkertoppen a hundred and fifty miles farther 

 down the coast, and by exceptional good luck the 

 small revenue vessel Islandsk Falk was at the 

 time in the same harbor. On receiving the news 

 the Islandsk Falk had at once started north to 



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