CHAPTER XXII 
WE MEET THE CHURCHES 
At dawn the next morning we left our igloo and 
went back over the trail we had made to the place 
where we had thrown off our supplies the afternoon 
before. Owing to the bad light and the drifting 
snow, we had a good deal of trouble in picking up 
our things and the trail itself was frequently ob¬ 
scured, but we managed to get our stuff together 
again and by nine o’clock were back at our igloo 
ready to begin our march eastward. We made 
some tea and at ten o’clock started on our way. 
On account of the overcast sky and the thick snow 
we could see little of the surrounding country and 
I had no way of telling just where we were. Later 
on, when I had a chance to go over the chart with 
Raron Kleist at East Cape, I figured out that we 
had landed near Cape Jakan, about sixty miles 
west of Cape North. 
We found the travelling excellent along the tun¬ 
dra. The trail was plainly marked, for the wind 
had swept the land nearly bare of snow, and the 
tracks of the sledge that had passed that way before 
were defined enough to be easily followed. After 
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