12 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
chine on hoard the Karluk, accompany us for a 
while and later on fly from the ship to the shore. 
The Karluh’s deck was already pretty well 
crowded with dogs, sledges, sacks of coal and other 
gear, and Stefansson finally decided that it would 
be impossible to grant the request. 
About two o’clock in the afternoon we had Cape 
Prince of Wales a-beam on the starboard side and 
shaped our course to round the shoal off the cape. 
There was a strong westerly wind blowing. By 
this time the Mary Sachs was hull down astern, so 
we put about and went back to see if everything 
was all right with her. When we left Port Oar- 
ence we had put Wilkins on board the Sachs to run 
her engine, on account of the temporary disability 
of her own engineer and now, as we came near 
enough to exchange words, we found that the en¬ 
gineer was feeling well enough to perform his 
duties, so we lowered a boat and transferred Wil¬ 
kins to the Karluh again. 
With the Sachs keeping in shore we proceeded 
on our way. The wind began to blow harder and 
veered to the northwest, bringing in a dense fog 
and a rising sea and making it necessary to put 
the ship on the starboard tack, reaching towards 
the Siberian coast. We continued on this course 
the rest of the day and until well after midnight; 
then the wind veered round to the west again and 
