306 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
in 1907. At this point Stefansson sent the sup¬ 
porting party back, and went on to the northward 
with six dogs, a sledge and forty days’ supplies, 
together with two rifles and 360 rounds of ammuni¬ 
tion. He had with him two companions, Storker 
Storkerson, who had been mate of the Duchess of 
Bedford and had been living as a hunter and 
trapper at various places along the shore since the 
date of the Mikkelson expedition, and Ole Ander¬ 
son, another experienced man. Stefansson in¬ 
tended to go on for fifteen days’ march before turn¬ 
ing back and hoped to do by ice travel what the 
Karluk had been prevented from doing—to dis¬ 
cover new land along the 141st Meridian. 1 Stef¬ 
ansson had not since been heard from, McConnell 
said, but there should be plenty of bear and seal for 
his party to subsist on and it was likely that in any 
event they could make their way to Banks Land. 
At Point Barrow, too, in the Bear we found 
several shipwrecked crews waiting for a chance to 
go south. We landed the mails and the various 
other things we had brought for the station there 
and then, finding that, as I have related, the 
schooner that we had found aground had floated, 
we headed at last for Wrangell Island. I was be¬ 
coming more and more anxious to get there and 
l Stefansson was successful in his quest for new land and, in 1915 
and 1916, reported his discoveries. 
