WINTER QUARTERS 



Sachawachick, still bent on shooting at sight, hitched up his 

 team and chased the couple from village to village. He went 

 as far as Kotzebue Sound, then he gave up the chase; but the 

 white man with his Eskimo woman kept on travelling until 

 they came to the south side of Kenai Peninsula. Not till they 

 arrived there did they feel themselves safe. But Sachawachick 

 returned to Point Hope, 

 where he found Douglamana, 

 and they moved along to Cape 

 Lisburne. That was in 1898, 

 when a whaling fleet of some 

 fifteen vessels were caught at 

 Point Barrow, and the U.S. 

 Government got stirred into 

 action. Lieutenant Jarvis, 

 U.S.R.C.S., travelled as fast 

 as he could along the coast 

 from St. Michael's to Point 

 Barrow in order to enforce 

 law and order among the 

 600 or 700 men wintering at 

 'the latter place. He had 

 great trouble to get dog-feed, 

 as the white men at Point Hope had no sympathy with 

 his mission, and it was not till he reached Sachawachick's 

 house that he got what he wanted. Sachawachick also 

 saved Lieutenant Howard, of the Lieutenant Stone Expedi- 

 tion, whom he met far inland, without any means of sub- 

 sistence. Our Eskimo friend gave him every ounce of white 

 man's food that he had, gave up a promising hunting excur- 

 sion, and brought Lieutenant Howard safely back to Point 

 Barrow. 



Douglamana gave birth to a son, and Sachawachick, 

 knowing that no Eskimo boy can be brought up to hunt and 

 live on the resources of the country at Point Barro.w, in 

 constant intercourse with the white man, left his own village 

 ,and his own people and started out, looking for new hunting 

 grounds. From the days of his youth,, when he. was a 

 member of the trading expeditions to the Kokmoliks, he 

 .remembered Flaxman Island, and, .thinking that as good as 



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DOUGLAMANA. 



