S TEFA NSSON-A NDERSON ARC TIC EX FED I TION 1 1 1 



the Schooner "Olga" beset in the ice off Cape Halkett as a letter from there 

 has ah'eady informed you; ^ we lost about five days at various rivers, either 

 through waiting for them to freeze over or in taking stuff across their deltas 

 in half- loads; we employed about five days in hunting, skinning and cach- 

 ing (on high wooden platforms) seal and deer. We got one seal and twelve 

 deer. Of the deer, I saved five specimens for Dr. Anderson. Three of 

 these were killed in the Cohulle delta, and two a little east of it — three 

 fine bucks, one old female, one young female (female and young with horns 

 in velvet). The deer show different stages of pelage — an old buck was in 

 summer color still, while the doe was fully changed and the others ranged 

 between. We also secured some specimens of mice, weasels and birds. 



At Flaxman Island we found Dr. Anderson and the three natives, all 

 well and Dr. Anderson reasonably satisfied with the fall months, though 

 he had had a rather complete change from whitemen's diet and had been 

 compelled at one time to eat up his mouse bait (5 lbs. of rolled oats). His 

 party had lived on squirrels and seal oil for a time, and later, on deer, fish 

 and grouse. 



Off Point Tangent I put some of our supplies and some we were carrying 

 for Leffingwell aboard the schooner "Rosie H.", whose captain, Fritz Wolki, 

 promised to take Leffingwell's stuff' to Flaxman and mine as far as he could 

 go. He was frozen in here, so we have here the following stores: 27 sacks 

 flour, 100 lbs. triscuit, 60 lbs. pilot bread, 80 lbs. bacon, 20 gallons coal oil, 

 4 tanks alcohol; this besides some of our ammunition, which we brought 

 from the east. 



These stores are, of course, by no means sufficient for our maintenance, 

 nor are they, even if taken with our stuff in Smith Bay, where our boats were 

 frozen in. We shall, therefore, leave here as soon as Dr. Anderson and I 

 get our letters written — ])rol)ably next Monday — and go looking for game. 

 Dr. Anderson wants to try getting some specimens of sheep, so he with two 

 natives will go to the mountains by way of the Kugruak (on maps " Kugura") 

 River, while the rest of us go west to near Beechey Point. Here we already 

 have 8 deer cached and hope to get more, while some of us will try to get 

 seal outside the Thetis Islands, which are off shore just east of the Colville. 

 If threatened with starvation. Dr. Anderson will come back to Haxman 

 and get the flour from the " Rosie H.", while if we fail to get game, we shall 

 go westward to Smith Bay where our boats are. Just now we are getting 

 some seal here at Flaxman — from one to three per day — bit it is our 

 opinion that these will not last, for the floe ice is very heavy off shore and all 

 open places will soon freeze. Most of even those natives who lial)itiially 



1 Published in this Journal for March, 1909, p. 67. 



