222 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
to build their own sleeping-place as we had been 
accustomed to do. 
Our Eskimo had no dog food; he would get some 
at Cape North, he said. I still had some dog 
pemmican left; at his aranga he had fed our dogs 
so that night when I fed our dogs I gave some 
pemmican to his dog. 
It was a great pleasure to sleep that night in our 
igloo. The air was not foul and close, as it had 
been in the aranga on the previous night, and we 
did not have the constant annoyance of coughing 
going on all around us. Our companion coughed 
a little when he first turned in but soon left off 
and we all fell asleep, not waking up until day¬ 
light. 
The sky was overcast and the wind north when 
we broke camp at six o’clock the next morning. 
We could not see very far. As we proceeded along 
the tundra we found that it became narrower as 
we approached Cape North. Our Siberian com¬ 
panion was very kind and added his dog to the 
four still remaining to us. His sledge was hardly 
larger than a child’s sled in America and we carried 
it easily on our sledge. By travelling hard all day 
we found ourselves approaching the settlement at 
Cape North about sunset. We had made a good 
two days’ march in spite of the dubious weather 
and the extreme cold. Low temperatures were 
