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chocolate, six gallons of coal oil, one quart of alco¬ 
hol, one Primus stove and outfit, four mugs, four 
spoons, one spade, one ice axe, one hatchet, one 
Mannlicher rifle and 100 rounds of ammunition, 
20 yards of rope, one dozen candles, one package of 
matches, five pounds of butter, one tent floor and 
a tracing of Wrangell Island from the chart. 
These supplies were sufficient for fifty days. 
The cook was up at four on the morning of the 
seventh and we breakfasted at half past five. At 
6:15 Chafe and Williams left for the fifth camp 
with a sledge-load of supplies, consisting of 96 
pounds of Underwood pemmican, 80 pounds of 
Hudson’s Bay pemmican, one case of oil, seven 
days’ food for themselves and their dogs and a 
camping outfit. At seven Mamen and the two 
Eskimo got away, with three sledges and seventeen 
dogs. Their sledges were loaded with four cases 
of Underwood man pemmican, three cases of dog 
pemmican, each case containing forty-eight pounds, 
three cases of oil, ten cases of biscuit and 256 pounds 
of Hudson’s Bay pemmican; they were to pick up 
supplies enough at the fourth camp to give them 
1800 pounds’ weight for their three sledges. They 
were then to go on and look for the mate’s party and 
leave one sledge and the supplies as far in as they 
could along the trail, bringing back the other two 
sledges light. 
