GREENLAND BY THE POLAR SEA 



"If we had been on the inland-ice or open ice, where 

 we should have had a sledge, we would have tried to pull Wulff 

 along, as we did occasionally during the last days on the inland- 

 ice. But on this snow-bare land of doughs it would be a matter 

 either of carrying him — and none of us had the strength for 

 this — or remaining with him ; but as we should have to go a 

 long distance before there was any game, this also proved im- 

 possible ; it would be to seek death for ourselves without being 

 able to help our dying comrade. 



" And Wulff would eat nothing, at any rate no hare meat ; 

 of our last bag he tasted merely a mouthful of hare liver, 

 although he might have eaten meat to repletion. We could 

 do nothing for him. 



"I believe he was ill, for during the last few nights he 

 moaned often during his sleep. 



"We had no alternative but to leave him behind, as he 

 himself demanded. If we found reindeer in a place from which 

 we could return whilst he was yet alive, we might still be able 

 to save him. But this was the only possibility. 



" We plucked grass and heather and made as soft and 

 sheltered a bed for him as we could, and here he lay down when 

 it was ready. 



" As we arose to continue our journey he nodded a smiling 

 farewell. And this smile from the poor man who had lain 

 down to die was my last impression of Wulff. I believe that 

 he would very quickly sleep into death." 



Inukitsoq, or Harrigan as we called him, had surely been 

 the one who, by his hunting, up to the very last did the most to 

 keep Wulff alive. It is of interest to see the characteristics of 

 this man which Wulff himself gives on a leaf of his diary, which 

 has no connection with the general notes from day to day : 



" Harrigan, a quiet, silent man, conscious of his own 

 strength, endurance, and ability to carry on in all weathers, 

 but without boasting. A lithe, beautiful, muscular body which 

 works with all the light elegant harmony of the sportsman and 

 the savage. A decidedly humorous mind which helps him 

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