PASSAGE THROUGH THE ICE 95 



we tow now than at Kodiak Island. There we could hardly 

 move the ship ; now we are getting along at a rate of one-and- 

 half mile an hour. This is partly owing to practice, partly 

 because the crew we have now is much stronger and better than 

 the last. At 10 A.M. we came to a good place for wintering, 

 and dropped anchor in ten feet of water, about one hundred 

 yards from the beach. 



Mr. Leffingwell and I took a walk ashore to see what our 

 future home looked like. It was not much to look at, but we 

 found plenty of fresh water with a small number of ducks 

 swimming about in it, and a great amount of driftwood. About 

 three miles farther off there are some Eskimo houses, but there 

 is nobody in them as yet. We took our dogs ashore, and they 

 certainly were delighted, ran about, rolled themselves in the 

 grass, fought and snarled at each other, while a few made a 

 bee-line for the Eskimo houses of the island. As we were 

 afraid to let the dogs roam about at large, we tied them to the 

 driftwood after they had been at liberty for a couple of hours. 

 The dogs upon the whole have stood the voyage well, but we 

 have lost three from a kind of hydrophobia. The first was the 

 pup we had received as a present from Jim Allen at Point Hope 

 and which was thrown overboard on August 8. The second 

 one was the bitch shot on August 29, and yesterday we had to 

 shoot " Baby." The poor thing had been suffering awfully, 

 and at last we tied him up with a heavy chain so far from all 

 the other dogs that he could not bite any of them. We wanted 

 to see whether the disease was deadly, and decided not to shoot 

 him, but to let him live until he either pulled round or 

 succumbed. But " Baby " became worse and worse, and 

 though we tried to deaden the pain with morphia, it was of no 

 use; so at last, when we could not seethe dog suffer any longer, 

 we had to shoot him. I do not like this disease, knowing from 

 experience on the Baldwin-Ziegler Expedition what harm it 

 can cause in a pack of dogs. 



Hicky is worse and is under the Doctor's treatment. 



