CHAPTER XI 



STORM-BOUND ON THE WALRUS 



'HE Walrus is a motor-schooner 

 of about twenty-six tons which 

 burns "distillate" for fuel in a 

 somewhat unmodern but quite 

 reliable type of motor. The schooner was brought 

 alongside the Disho and our stores transferred 

 directly. The hold they filled completely so that 

 the drums of gasoline and the lumber had to be 

 lashed on deck. The crew consisted of the Eskimo 

 skipper Andreasson and four Eskimo sailors. In 

 the little cabin were two bunks only, but as we al- 

 ways anchored at night, Church slept on the floor 

 of the wheel-house, Belknap and Erlanson on the 

 floor of the cabin, while Herz and myself placed 

 our sleeping bags on the walls of the old store- 

 house piled on deck and covered by a tarpaulin 

 rigged up as a tent. All the Eskimos, the four 



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