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On the 28th there was a general exodus from the 

 ship: Henson, Ootah, Alletah, and Inighito were to 

 hunt on the north side of Lake Hazen; Marvin, Pood- 

 loonah, Seegloo, and Arco on the east end and the 

 south side of Lake Hazen; and Bartlett, with Pan- 

 ikpah, Inighito, Ookeyah, Dr. Goodsell, with Inighito, 

 Keshungwah, Ky ootah, and Borup, with Karko, Taw- 

 chingwah, and Ahwatingwah, were to go straight 

 through to Cape Columbia. 



I had planned from the beginning to leave most 

 of the hunting and other field work to the younger 

 members of the expedition. Twenty odd years of 

 arctic experience had dulled for me the excitement 

 of everything but a polar-bear chase; the young men 

 were eager for the work; there was much to do on 

 board ship in planning for the spring, and I wished 

 to conserve my energies for the supreme effort. 



There was no systematic training, because I do 

 not believe in it. My body has always been able thus 

 far to follow my will no matter what the demands might 

 be, and my winter's work was largely a matter of refine- 

 ment of equipment, and of mathematical calculations 

 of pounds of supplies and miles of distance. It was 

 the lack of food which had forced us to turn back at 

 87° 6'. Hunger, not cold, is the dragon which guards 

 the Rhinegold of the Arctic. 



I did allow myself one break in the monotony 

 of ship life — a trip to Clements Markham Inlet, in 

 October. Ever since April, 1902, when I had looked 

 around the angle of Cape Hecla into the unexplored 

 depths of this great fiord, I had had a longing to pene- 

 trate it. On the previous expedition I had started 



