SHIPWRECKED 



for a considerable time. I therefore consider 

 strictly rationing the party to begin the next day 

 if no vessel makes its appearance. Watch parties 

 at intervals climb the little cliff between our camp 

 and the fjord to watch the fjord below. 



We now go over our supplies very carefully. 

 A pemmican box which he had thought contained 

 our collection of rock specimens made by Stewart, 

 proved now to be full of pemmican, about 36 

 pounds in all. This means then that our specimens 

 are somewhere down in the hold of the Nakuak 

 under water where we cannot reach them. We 

 have also another box with 26 pounds of pemmi- 

 can, also some erbswurst and a little canned fruit. 

 But as this is for five white men and four Eskimos 

 it will not last very long. 



On his climb up the cliff Potter had seen Arc- 

 tic hares and so Nathaniel is sent out to hunt with 

 a rifle. Stewart unlimbers his fishing rod and starts 

 out to a little bay to fish. Etes and Potter set 

 about constructing a raft so as to continue salvag- 

 ing from the wreck. For this purpose they employ 

 the empty gasoline cans of which we had many 

 on board. 



If our Eskimos had won through to Kangamiut, 

 we should, we believed have been taken off the next 

 day. We feared, now, that they had not got through 



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