NINDEMANN AND NOROS. 815 



four o'clock, as they stumbled on, they came to a small 

 river running across their line of travel. They reached 

 the other bank when Noros looking back discovered 

 three huts on the bank they had left. It was the place 

 set down on later maps as Bulcour. They recrossed the 

 stream, and on making their way to the huts found in 

 one of them a kayak with some fish-nets and other arti- 

 cles. Near by was a half kayak with something in it. 

 Noros tasted it. It was like sawdust. Nindemann also 

 tasted it. It was blue molded and tasteless to them, 

 but it was fish, and they took it with them to the other 

 huts. They found nothing more, and after gathering 

 some drift-wood they made a fire and tried to find 

 some food in the moldy fish. 



They slept by the fire they had made, and Thursday 

 they gathered a little wood. They knew how weak 

 they were when they were gathering it, though when 

 they sat by the fire they thought themselves strong 

 enough to move on. But they stayed by the hut all 

 day. Dysentery had attacked them and their strength 

 seemed failing. 



When Friday, the 21st, came, they thought they 

 would make a start, but were so weak that they put off 

 the attempt till the morrow, and spent the day in a 

 careful husbanding of their resources. They measured 

 in their tin cups the fish that was left, and found that 

 by taking each two cupfuls a day they had enough for 

 ten days. Nothing else remained to them but a skull- 

 cap apiece, and a pair of foot-nips. These they pro- 

 ceeded to fill with fish and sew up, and then rigged 

 them with straps for carrying. 



On the morning of Saturday, the 22d, Nindemann 

 was ready to make a fresh start, but Noros said, u We 

 are pretty weak yet, and as the weather is cold we had 



