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that we had better do all the sewing we could. We 
also made tents and covers of light canvas for our 
sledges. We should of course be unable to do any 
sewing when we once got under way for the land. 
We had lanterns and lamps for light in the various 
houses. 
Fur clothing is so heavy that it has to be sewed 
by hand but much of the other work was done on 
sewing-machines of which we had saved two* one 
for the box-house and the other for the snow igloo. 
Keruk used one sewing-machine and Mr. Munro 
the other. He was skilful at this as at a good 
many other useful things. He had formerly 
been a junior officer on the British warship Rain¬ 
bow, which was afterwards transferred to the 
Canadian service; his term of enlistment expired 
at the time of the transfer and Captain Hose of 
the Rainbow, commandant of the Esquimault 
Navy Yard, recommended him to me for chief en¬ 
gineer of the Karluk. 
On the fourteenth it was fine and clear with a 
temperature of thirty-eight degrees below zero. 
The wind was west; our soundings through a hole 
cut in the ice gave us thirty-four fathoms. In the 
noon twilight we could see land in a southwesterly 
direction. The men worked all day long making 
footbags to use when sleeping; it would be a great 
relief to take off the deerskin boots and put on 
