816 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
except to be as useful as possible to his compan¬ 
ions. 
I shook hands all around with our party and then 
with Mr. Swenson and Captain Jochimsen, the 
brave skipper of the King and Winge, and thanked 
them in the name of the Canadian Government for 
rescuing the men. Then I asked Mr. Swenson's 
permission to have the Karluk people transferred 
to the Bear. There they could receive the medical 
attention that they needed* for there was no doctor 
on the King and Winge; there was* too* no reason 
now why Mr. Swenson should not continue the 
walrus-hunt that he had postponed to go to Wran¬ 
gell Island for the men of the Karluk . McCon¬ 
nell* also* who was on the King and Winge , came 
on board the Bear with the rest. 
To get the whole party and their few possessions 
over to the Bear took about an hour. Then we 
said good-by to the King and Winge and steamed 
in the direction of Herald Island to make a search 
for the mate’s and the doctor's parties, though there 
was no likelihood of seeing any traces of them. At 
dark, owing to the ice* the engines were kept work¬ 
ing easy ahead; at eight o'clock the next morning, 
September 9* we were twelve miles from Herald 
Island. The ice kept us from getting any nearer, 
and after we had done what we could to find a way 
through, Captain Cochran decided to go back to 
