232 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
and invigorating, together with frozen deer meat 
and walrus meat; Kataktovick ate the walrus meat 
and I the deer meat. Our host made clear to me 
that we could not reach another aranga before 
nightfall and invited us to stop with him. We ac¬ 
cepted gladly. 
The deer man was loath to part with any of his 
dogs. Finally he said he would not decide that 
night but would let me know in the morning. We 
were up with the first crack of dawn and had a 
breakfast of pemmican, frozen deer meat and tea; 
then I reopened the subject of the dogs. The 
Eskimo said that he would not sell me a dog but 
would let me take one if I would send it back from 
East Cape. I gave him a razor and promised to 
do so. Then he showed me his rifle, which was a 
Remington, and some cartridges, making signs to 
ask me if I had any cartridges to pay him for the 
use of the dog. I had no Remington cartridges, 
but took out the chart and showed him that after 
reaching East Cape I was going across to Nome 
and would send him some cartridges from there. 
He knew about Nome; evidently the trading 
motor-boats from Nome had been up along the 
Siberian coast. The dog, as I understood, I could 
send back from East Cape by travellers bound 
west, though the distance was at least three hun- 
