48 HUNTING IN THE ARCTIC 



by a stout bulwark with scuppers at the deck edge. 

 There were two hatches on deck. The forward hatch 

 lay between the fore and the main masts; the after 

 hatch between the main and the spanker. A large iron 

 tank holding five hundred gallons of gasoline was firmly 

 fastened to the deck just forward of the after hatch, and 

 there were various loose barrels on the deck at all times, 

 together with some large iron drums in which Klein- 

 schmidt had brought up low grade gasoline or distillate, 

 for engine fuel. More of these iron drums were stowed 

 in the hold, and he had deposited a number of them at 

 St. Michael and also farther south in Pirate Cove in 

 southwestern Alaska, to be used upon the return voyage. 

 At the end of the trip, therefore, the decks were almost 

 completely full of gasoline drums. In addition to this 

 bulky cargo a launch on the starboard side and a large 

 dory on the port side were lashed in place. 



Provisions, trading goods with which to pay off such 

 natives as we might hire, and the thousand and one other 

 things found on every ship were stowed in the hold under 

 the forward and after hatches, in such a manner that 

 after they had been sorted over a few times it was almost 

 impossible to find any article that might be required. 



