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CONQUERING THE ARCTIC ICE 



150 Ibs. from the natives, and had got two hindquarters of 

 some white bears which the Eskimos had killed. 



November set in with fine weather and a considerably lower 

 temperature. 



Although I thought that we had bought all the cariboo skins 

 which the natives possessed, they kept on bringing more, and 



NANEGERAK AND KREESEEK. 



we bought all we needed for our clothing. Besides cariboo 

 skins we bought some mountain sheepskins, which, however, 

 were stowed away somewhere near Koogoora River (the big 

 river which empties itself close to Flagman Island). We 

 wanted to use the skins for sleeping bags and had got them 

 cheaply, though on the condition that we were to fetch them 

 ourselves. As I had been indoors for a long while I started 

 myself, leaving Dr. Howe in charge of the ship. 



A young Eskimo, Kreeseek, went with me as a guide, 

 and we started on November 6 with one sledge drawn by 

 Journiska, Dad, and Baby. We had a hard time on the lower 

 river, as the ice had been crushed in the early fall and was 



