36 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
gallons of alcohol, a box of dog-biscuit, six tins of 
compressed tea-tablets, ten pounds of sugar, a 
supply of matches, three sleeping-bags, sheepskin 
sleeping-robes, two pieces of canvas for tents, four 
slabs of bacon, ten pounds of lard, one hundred and 
twenty pounds of fish, twenty pounds of rice, a 
box of tinned beef, five pounds of salt, a case of 
Underwood man-pemmican (we had two kinds of 
pemmican, one for men, the other for dogs, equally 
palatable and nourishing) fifteen pounds of choco¬ 
late, a box of ship’s biscuits or “pilot bread,” a 
Mannlicher rifle and a shotgun, with ammunition, 
six seal-floats and a camp cooking-set. 
We all had luncheon together as usual. There 
was nothing out of the ordinary about the trip that 
was about to take place. Stefansson expected to 
be back in about ten days and there seemed no 
reason to suppose that the ship would not remain 
where she was until the next summer brought a 
genuine smashing-up of the ice and freed her. We 
all went out on the ice, however, to see the shore 
party off and Wilkins took some moving pictures. 
Before he started, Stefansson left me the follow¬ 
ing formal letter of instruction: 
C. G. S. Karluh, Sept. 20, 1913. 
Dear Captain Bartlett: 
On the trip for which I am leaving the Karluh 
to-day, I expect to make land on the largest second 
