320 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
Williamson, Chafe, Williams and Breddy the 
othei. Breddy accidentally shot himself later on, 
making the third death on the island. Hadley and 
Kerdrillo hunted daily and as the season advanced 
they were able to get seal and duck, which gave 
sufficient food after the supplies that we had 
brought from Shipwreck Camp had become ex¬ 
hausted the first week in June. It was never 
possible to get a very large supply of food ahead 
at any one time, and as the summer wore on and 
they heard nothing from me they faced the pros¬ 
pect of another winter with misgivings. Hadley 
and Kerdrillo fashioned a rude Eskimo kayak, by 
making a framework of driftwood and stretching 
sealskins over it, and Kerdrillo made good use of 
this in hunting seal after the ice had broken up. 
Both at Rodgers Harbor and at Waring Point 
the anxiety as to the possibility of our not having 
made a safe crossing to Siberia to bring help in¬ 
creased as the time went on. It required no undue 
exercise of the imagination on my part to realize 
the intense relief which the men felt when, on the 
morning of the seventh of September, the sound of 
a steam whistle came across the water to those in 
the tent at Rodgers Harbor and the party from 
the King and Winge came ashore. This party in¬ 
cluded Mr. Swenson and members of his own force, 
together with Eskimo walrus hunters, whom he had 
