42 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLVK 
have been able to extricate herself, and how much 
less effective was the Karluh with her weaker con¬ 
struction and less powerful engines. As long as 
the ice remained frozen solidly about the ship, our 
chief danger was from the heavy grounded floes; 
if it broke up, then the fragments were more likely 
to be fatal to the Karluh than they would be to a 
ship built like the Roosevelt. 
We were not far from land. In fact from the 
crow’s nest during the day I caught a glimpse of 
what I took to be Cape Halkett. The next day 
the storm subsided, conditions improved somewhat, 
though our drift continued, and by the chart we 
were not far now from Point Barrow. The 
hunters were able to go out and the Eskimo brought 
in three seal. 
When we started our drift we had brought the 
dogs aboard to avoid losing any, because the dogs, 
of course, were essential to our safety if anything 
should happen to the ship; we now put them back 
again on the ice. When aboard ship they were 
chained in all parts of the deck, wherever we could 
find room for them, with a leeway of about two 
feet for each. They had to be kept separate in 
this way so that they could not get at each other, 
for when a fight started it was liable to be a fight to 
a finish. There were about forty of them all told 
