CHAPTER XVIII 



THE RELIEF OF CARLSON AT 

 MOUNT EVANS 



HIS was a situation indeed! 

 Carlson I feared was in 

 serious need of relief, and I 

 felt warranted, therefore, in 

 forcing my way into the Governor's office where I 

 found him in conference with the Landsvogel. 

 Quite politely I was told that the situation was a 

 very perilous one and that the Walrus could not 

 be spared. To this I rephed that I fully ap- 

 preciated the situation, but that I did not need the 

 Walrus. This caused some surprise, but I now 

 proposed to make use of a smaller sloop, a six-ton 

 motor vessel named the Nakuak which had been of 

 the deck cargo on the Shinfaxe and was con- 

 signed to some Eskimos for halibut fishing. The 

 boat had been injured in removing from the wreck 

 but a very little work in repairing the injury 



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