246 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
light. Our treatment at the kind hands of this 
Chukch family will always remain in my memory. 
The old man seemed to realize that we had great 
need for getting along as fast as we could and he 
volunteered to give us a lift to the next aranga 
nine or ten miles away. He said nothing about 
going until he harnessed up his dogs just as we 
were starting. It was a great help and enabled 
us to get along so well that we covered the dis¬ 
tance by nine o’clock. At this next aranga we met 
four Russian prospectors who were on their way 
from East Cape to Cape North, near which are 
gold mines. They were well-equipped travellers. 
Each had a sledge with a team of twelve fine dogs. 
They treated us to black bread, butter, tea, sugar 
and sardines. One of them could speak a little 
English; he wrote his name for me on a piece of 
paper which, I am sorry to say, I lost. 
We had two snow-knives with us and when we 
now said goodby to the old native who had been 
so kind to us, I gave him one of these, with a couple 
of steel drills which we used for making holes for 
the sledge-shoes, and a skein of fish-line. 
Travelling all day long, we came some time 
after the sun went down to a place where there 
were three arangas. The Russian miners had told 
us about them and had said they thought we should 
be able to reach them by nightfall. Two of the 
