104 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
“Tf we have reasonable luck we shall be able to get east again from 
Barrow with our boats to whatever point we decide upon for wintering; 
meantime we hope that the part of our crowd we leave behind will be able 
to get together a small supply of fish and possibly a few deer. We may also. 
have a little time for digging in ruins when delayed by head winds going to: 
and coming from Barrow.” 
“Point Barrow, ALAsKA, August 22nd, 1908. 
“We left Herschel Island August 15th, proceeding westward in the 
hope of either getting matches and such other things as we most needed at 
Flaxman Island (from Mr. Leffingwell) or from Point Barrow, and hoping 
to winter on the Colville or east of it. 
“Towards evening of August 16th the whaler ‘ Karluk’ came in sight 
from the east and I boarded her some 20 miles west of Herschel Island,— 
we had had unfavorable winds. His food supply was so short that he did 
not care to take our party and all our dogs, but was willing to take me and 
one boat to some place where I should be able to get supphes (matches, etc.) 
to proceed with eastward. He expected to meet the incoming whaler ‘any- 
where between Herschel and Barrow, but probably east of Flaxman.’ I 
asked Dr. Anderson with two boats and three Eskimos to proceed westward 
along the coast till they came to some promising hunting or fishing locality. 
“T intended going ashore at Flaxman to see whether Mr. Leffingwell 
could supply our needs, but he saved me this by coming on board, asking 
Capt. Wing to take him as a passenger ‘ for the outside,’ which Capt. Wing 
did. Mr. Leffingwell said he had given the natives all his matches, had no 
tobacco and practically no coal oil,— and what he had was mostly pledged. 
Fortunately he was owing one of my Eskimos 10 gallons of coal oil, and this: 
he had left for him at Flaxman. Evidently there was nothing for me to do 
but go to Point Barrow, some 225 miles farther west. 
“All the way from Herschel to 12 miles east of, Point Barrow ice condi- 
tions were unusually bad for this time of year, still we got through, but with 
frequent delays. But the evening of August 19th the ‘Karluk’ was stopped 
by impenetrable ice some 10 or 12 miles east of Point Barrow (the north tip 
of the continent). From that point and for some 40 or 50 miles beyond, at 
least, the ice is solid.— impassable for any ships, large or small. 
“When the ‘ Karluk’ was stopped, we immediately got into our boat, for 
there was water enough along the shore for a whaleboat, and proceeded to 
Cape Smith, some 12 miles beyond (west of) Point Barrow, and Mr. Leffing- 
well came with me. Here we were warmly welcomed by Mr. Charles 
Brower, the master of the whaling station, and invited to stay with him so 
long as we liked. 
