CHAPTER X. 
JOURNEY AFTER HANS-ESQUIMAUX SLEDQINQ-HANS FOUND- 
RECEPTO AMICO-EXPLANATION-FURTHER SEARCH—MATURING 
PLANS-CHANCES OF ESCAPE-FOOD PLENTY—PAULIK—FAMINE 
AMONG THE ESQUIMAUX-EXTINCTION-LIGHT HEARTS-DE¬ 
SERTER RECOVERED. 
“April 10, Tuesday.—I left the brig at 10i a.m., 
with but five dogs and a load so light as to be hardly 
felt. 
“It requires some suggestive incident to show us how 
we have gradually become assimilated in our habits to 
the necessities of our peculiar life. Such an incident 1 
find in my equipment. Compare it with similar sledge- 
outfits of last winter, and you will see that we are now 
more than half Esquimaux. It consists of— 
“1. One small sledge, five feet six by two. 
“2. An extra jumper and sack-pants for sleeping. 
“3. A ball of raw walrus-meat.—This is all. 
“The sledge is portable, and adapted to jump over 
the chasms of the land-ice, and to overturn with 
impunity, save to the luckless driver. It has two 
standards, or, as we call them, “ up-standers,” which 
spring like elbows from its hinder extremity. 
