304 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
her way eastward towards Herschel Island or had 
been blown westward into the waters north of Point 
Barrow they did not know. It was impossible for 
them to get ashore until the twenty-eighth, y/hen 
they reached Beechey Point. They stayed in this 
vicinity for several days and Stefansson did a little 
caribou hunting without success. The Eskimo 
became alarmed because there was not a larger 
amount of food, for they were civilized Eskimo 
and unused to living off the country, so finally on 
the third of October the party started westward to¬ 
wards Point Barrow. They made the march of 
175 miles in nine days. 
They stayed at Point Barrow for some time to 
procure fur clothing and provisions for the party, 
as well as a sledge and a dog-team. On Novem¬ 
ber 8 they started east again. The latter part of 
the month they reached Cape Halkett, where they 
met an experienced Eskimo hunter named An gup- 
kanna, otherwise called “the Stammerer,” who told 
them that early in October he saw a ship in the ice 
off shore and through his telescope could see her 
distinctly. Stefansson was sure that she was the 
Karluh, a ship with which the Eskimo was well 
acquainted from her whaling days. Angupkanna 
told them that he watched her for three or four 
hours and then fog settled down for three days, at 
the end of which time he saw her no more. 
