820 THE VOYAGE OF THE JEANNETTE. 



me and wanted to know, as near as I could make out, 

 whether our ship was something like it. I then went 

 to work and got some sticks and placed them in the 

 boat, showing them that our ship had three masts, and 

 then got more sticks, showing them that she had yards. 

 This seemed to surprise them very much. I then made 

 a smoke-stack out of wood, and pointed to the fire and 

 'smoke, and then showed them the place astern where 

 the rudder was, and had a small roll which I turned to 

 make them understand that our ship was a steamer. I 

 then made models of the boats, and showed them how 

 many boats the ship held. Then I told one of the men 

 to get me a couple of pieces of ice. He went out and 

 got me a couple of pieces of ice, and I showed them 

 how the ice had crushed our ship. I then pointed to 

 the northward, as much as to say, the ice crushed our 

 ship away to the northward, and that we saved three 

 boats, putting in each little boat so many sticks, to rep- 

 resent how many men there were in each boat. At the 

 time there was a clog in the room. A man pointed tc 

 the clog and wanted to know whether we had any dogs. 

 I counted on my fingers that we had about forty, and 

 made them understand that we had shot the most of 

 them, and left some of them behind on the ice. I then 

 showed them a chart of the ocean and the coast line, 

 showing that we had a gale of wind, and that our boat 

 went in here, and that we did not know what had be- 

 come of the other two. I then showed them on the 

 chart where we had landed, and made the boat on the 

 chart a little way oft: land, and then I showed them by 

 pencil-marks that everybody had left the boat and 

 waded ashore. Then showed them the way we walked 

 along the river bank, and I marked the huts where we 

 stopped. Here we came to the place where Ericksen 



