142 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
helping her father with the sledge. Kerdrillo had 
five dogs. His sledge was loaded with four cases 
of man pemmican, forty-eight tins of milk, two tins 
of biscuit, one case of oil, 2,400 tea tablets, in her¬ 
metically sealed tins, one 30.30 Winchester rifle, 
200 rounds of ammunition, one tent, one Primus 
stove, one axe, two pickaxes, candles, a gallon of 
alcohol, matches, snow-knives and sleeping robes. 
The rest of us had two sledges, one with three 
dogs, driven by Kataktovick, the other with four 
dogs, driven by myself. On Kataktovick’s sledge 
were three cases of man pemmican, thirty-six cases 
of milk, two cases of biscuit, ten gallons of oil and 
2,400 tea tablets. My own sledge carried four 
cases of man pemmican, two cases of biscuit, thirty- 
six cases of milk, twelve tins of coal oil, 2,400 tea 
tablets, one tent, matches, one Primus stove, one 
axe, two pickaxes, candles, snow-knives, one gallon 
of alcohol, one pair of snowshoes, one pair of ski, 
one Mannlicher rifle, 250 rounds of ammunition, 
one Colt revolver, 100 rounds of ammunition, sleep¬ 
ing-robes, rope and spare harness. We had to 
leave a Peary sledge in camp because there were 
not dogs enough to make a team to haul it. As it 
was, our three sledges, with their four-hundred- 
pound loads, were heavily burdened for the dogs 
we had, with some of them in a half-crippled con¬ 
dition. 
