EASTWARD ALONG THE TUNDRA 22 9 
When I put my head outside of the aranga, 
about seven o’clock the next morning, I found that 
the wind was blowing almost a hurricane from the 
west and sweeping the snow into heavy drifts. 
Mr. Caraieff told me that he would be unable to 
travel against it but as it would be at our backs I 
decided to start. For breakfast I went around to 
the aranga occupied by the other Russian and made 
a first rate meal of frozen bear meat, flapjacks and 
cocoa, topping off with three pipefuls of Ameri¬ 
can tobacco. About ten o’clock we started on our 
way. We had not gone far before the weather 
cleared and the wind died down, so that we had 
a beautiful, clear, cold day and made good progress 
along the tundra. At sunset we built our igloo, 
had our pemmican and some deer meat that Katak- 
tovick had procured at Cape North and turned in. 
Long since we had used up our supply of ship’s 
biscuit, most of which had got damaged beyond 
use by salt water on the way across the ice from 
Wrangell Island. 
At daylight on April 10 we left our igloo and 
by the time we got away the sun had risen. It was 
a fine, clear day, with a light easterly wind, which 
was very cold. Kataktovick complained of his 
hands and feet and I suffered a good deal of pain 
in my arms. The dogs were working badly and 
were able to travel only with the greatest difficulty, 
