236 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
ently the old man came back and signified that he 
would agree to the bargain. Kataktovick looked 
over the dog he offered us and we agreed that it 
was not much good, so I pointed to a better dog 
and indicated that he was my choice. The old man 
shook his head but offered to let me have the dog 
if I would add the binoculars to the revolver. I 
in turn shook my head, took the revolver and the 
cartridges from the boy and prepared to leave. 
At that the old man gave in and handed over the 
dog and a harness; so I gave the revolver and the 
cartridges back to the boy, hitched up the dog and 
we were soon on our way again. The dog was a 
strong, little, white fellow, and worked well. Our 
old Whitey was well enough now to trot along be¬ 
hind the sledge, but could do no work yet. In¬ 
cluding Whitey we now had six dogs. 
It was about three o’clock when we left the old 
man’s aranga. About sunset, which now came at 
seven o’clock, we met a party of Chukches, with 
three teams of dogs, bound westward towards Cape 
North. We stopped for a few minutes’ conversa¬ 
tion and I found that they had come from Cape 
Onman at the mouth of Koliuchin Bay. They 
told me that they would reach the aranga which 
we had last left by the time it was dark, which 
would be in about an hour and a half. It had 
taken us four hours to cover the distance but we 
