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had oeen as disastrous as disease with us: they had 
killed all but thirty, and of these there were now 
sixteen picketed on the ice about the brig. The aid 
and influence of Kalutunah could secure my closing 
expedition. 
I succeeded in making my arrangements with him, 
provisionally at least, and the morning after we all set 
KALUTUNAH'S PARTY. 
out. The party consisted of Kalutunah, Shanghu, and 
Tatterat, with their three sledges. Ilans, armed with 
the Marston rifle, was my only companion from the 
ship’s company. The natives carried no arms but the 
long knife and their unicorn-ivorj' lances. Our whole 
equipment was by no means cumbersome: except the 
clothes upon our back and raw walrus-meat, we carried 
nothing. The walrus, both flesh and blubber, was cut 
into flat slabs half an inch thick and about as long 
