292 THE FRIENDLY ARCTIC 



bit of hardwood here and a strip of iron there Bernard was able 

 to make us one of the finest sleds we ever used. It must have 

 hurt him to do it, for he loved the Sachs, which he had owned for 

 many years before selling her to us, and he had sold her with the 

 provision that he might buy her back at the end of the voyage. He 

 already had dreams and plans of what he would then do with her. 



