CHAPTER XXIII 



SHIPWRECKED 



HE events leading up to the res- 

 cue of the flyers would incline 

 us to ascribe something to 

 Providence. The fortuitous ar- 

 rival of the Eskimos in their 

 umiak, the high wind that made 

 them hug the south shore of the fjord, the arrival 

 of the wanderers opposite Camp Lloyd when they 

 did — rather than two days later when the summer 

 party would have already left for the season — 

 each of these was a factor which if absent might 

 have led to a different result. As it was, their 

 rescue was effected only two days before we of the 

 summer party went out to the coast to sail home- 

 ward. 



Though both men had been game to the limit, 

 the reaction showed what they had been through. 

 They were content to rest without effort. They had 



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