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not needing any bear meat, so I tried to scare him off, but lie was 

 too scared of the dogs to pay any attention to me. As I did not want 

 him to kill any of the dogs I finally had to shoot him. As I shot I 

 heard another growling match and another bear piled over a small ridge 

 that was about ten feet from the sled. He had blood in his eye and 

 went for the dogs as if bent on murder. I had to kill him, which closed 

 a pretty good day so far as bears and dog feed were concerned. 



Next morning I opened up the bears to let the gas escape, expecting 

 the Captain would send back for the meat for dog feed. About noon 

 as we were drawing near the .ridge, two men came running to meet 

 us. They were the Chief and one of the sailors, who helped us over 

 the ridge to camp. After I told my story to the Captain he said, 

 "All right, to-morrow morning you will go back to the bears and bring 

 two loads of meat." I suggested going to Shipwreck Camp and bring- 

 ing two sled-loads of hard bread and rice, which would last us along with 

 the pemmican until it was time for ships to come in the summer, but 

 he did not approve of this. He said the Chief would make a trip out 

 to the ship when we got ashore. "Yes," I said, "that would be all right 

 providing we don't have a south wind in the meantime." 



The next morning Kurraluk, McKinlay, Mamen and I went back 

 for bear meat while the rest were double-tripping stuff towards the 

 beach. We arrived there the 12th of March, having had a fairly good 

 road the forty miles from the ridge. There was plenty of driftwood, 

 which was a godsend to us though it would have been worth a great 

 deal more had we had our sheet-iron stoves. From this time and 

 right through the summer we had a lot of trouble with our cooking 

 gear. The aluminum pots which we threw away on leaving the Earluk 

 would have been good as new after ten years of use, but our pots 

 which the engineers had made to replace them out of kerosene tins had 

 holes in them before the Captain left. The tin was fragile, the solder- 

 ing was bad, and between use and rust they were soon in pretty bad 

 condition. [Bartlett mentions the giving out of the tins used for 

 cooking, on page 172 of "The Last Voyage of the Karluk."] 



The next morning the Captain sent one of the Eskimos and me out to 

 look for the Mate's and the Doctor's parties but no sled tracks or other 

 signs were to be found. Big fires were made with wet driftwood to 

 cause smoke which they could see a long way if they were there to 

 see it. Arrangements were made that the Chief should first make a 

 round trip to Shipwreck Camp and then go to Herald Island to look 

 for traces of the lost men. The morning of the 17th the Chief left 

 with two teams, a sailor and a fireman, for Shipwreck Camp, while the 

 Captain and one of the natives got ready for their trip to East Cape. 

 They started the next morning with fifty days' rations for the men 

 and thirty days' for the dogs. 



Malloch wanted to go with the Captain but he wouldn't take him, 

 saying he couldn't stand the trip. This broke poor old Malloch all up. 



