23 4 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
every reason to believe that the cartridges which 
I sent him when I finally reached Alaska arrived 
safely. 
With our new dog now harnessed to the sledge 
and Whitey still a passenger, we got away by the 
middle of the forenoon and by mid-afternoon 
reached another aranga, where we found two 
women. I tried to make them understand that I 
wanted to see the man of the house and buy a dog 
from him; there were several pretty good dogs 
running around outside the aranga. The women 
were not very talkative but they finally managed 
to make me understand that the men were away, 
gathering driftwood. We made ourselves some 
tea and waited. Kataktovick went into the aranga 
and presently returned to tell me that the women 
had some flour and were willing to give us some. I 
hardly knew what we could do with it and said so. 
Kataktovick replied, 41 ‘Me make flapjacks.” 
He got some of the flour and mixed it with 
melted snow. Then he greased the cover of the 
tea boiler with walrus blubber, placed it over the 
Primus stove and cooked half a dozen flapjacks. 
They proved to be veiy good, and from that time 
on, whenever we got a chance, we had flapjacks; un¬ 
fortunately chances like this were few and far be- 
tween. The day was fine and clear and we had a 
good view of the hinterland, which, I found, re- 
