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somewhere in the vicinity he was to establish a new 
Eskimo village. We went on to Point Hope, 
where Doctor Hoar left us. 
At Point Hope I again met Kataktovick, who 
had been brought over from East Cape by Captain 
Pederson in the Herman . I paid him his wages, as 
a member of the Karluk expedition, and gave him a 
complete outfit of clothing which the Canadian 
Government was providing for each man of the 
party. He would have liked to go with us on the 
trip to Wrangell Island, if it had been possible. 
He was feeling well, he said, and from the looks of 
things seemed about to be married. 
From Point Hope we headed for Point Bar- 
row. Off Icy Cape we met the first ice and from 
there on it was a constant fight to make our way 
along; evidently it was not an open season. Ac- 
companying us were the King and Winge, a wal¬ 
rus-hunter and trader, managed by Mr. Olaf 
Swenson, and a Canadian schooner, loaded with 
supplies for the mounted police at Herschel Island. 
The schooner had a big deckload and was very 
heavy in the water. She was not sheathed and 
had no stem-plates, and was evidently not at 
all adapted for ice work. In fact, it seemed 
doubtful to me whether she ever would reach Point 
Barrow. The King and Winge , on the other hand, 
