FROM FLAXMAN ISLAND TO ICY CAPE 335 



to be cached along the coast at three different places, at 

 Sakowanuktok, Ooliktoonik, and Cape Halkett. 



We took food for the dogs to last for twenty days. It con- 

 sisted of cornmeal and pemmican. Our tent was a genuine 

 native tent, the cover of which consisted of a piece of deerskin 

 (with the hair rotted off) and a piece of calico 15 by 16 feet. 

 A better and warmer tent could not well be carried. Some 

 letters and other papers relating to the expedition added very 

 much to our weight, but they were absolutely necessary and 

 could not be left behind. My clothing was exclusively of fur 

 and weighed 10 Ibs. I carried a good deal of spare clothing, 

 as I had to have extra pants as well as numerous stockings and 

 boots. 



The weights carried were as follows : 



Two sledges 80 Ibs. 



Men's food for twenty days . . . 136 



Dogs' food for twenty days . . . 105 ,, 



Food to be cached for return . . . 105 ,, 



Food to take beyond Point Barrow . . 76 ,, 



Horlick's malted milk . . . . 15 ,, 



Spare clothing (three men) . . . 29 ,, 



Sleeping bags (three) 33 ,, 



Sleeping skins . . . . . . 6 ,, 



Sedge grass . . ... 6 ,, 



Boxes with papers . . . . . 36 ,, 



Camera and films . . . . . 6 ,, 



Tent and sticks . . . . . . 30 ,, 



Stove and cooking utensils . . . . 10 ,, 



Axe, spade, etc. . . . . . . 12 ,, 



685 Ibs. 



The weather was too stormy to start, and although I was aching 

 to be off, I had one more day of ease in our house, where Mr. 

 Leifingwell and I settled up everything relating to our work on the 

 expedition. We went down to the village during the afternoon. 

 Tjimigok was very sick, with the same symptoms that Hipana 

 had developed before, and there was probably no doubt that he 

 also had contracted typhoid fever. Poor Sachawachick took 

 his boy's sickness very much to heart and seemed to think that 



