CHAPTER XIX 
THE ROOSEVELT STARTS FOR HOME — ^ESQUIMO 
VILLAGES NEW DOGS AND NEW DOG FIGHTS 
T T was two-thirty p. m., July IT, 1909, that 
^ the Roosevelt pointed her bow southward 
and we left our winter quarters and Cape 
Sheridan. We were on our journey home, all 
hands as happy as when, a year previous, we 
had started on our way north, with the added 
satisfaction of complete success. The ship 
had steamed but a short distance, when, owing 
to the rapidly drifting ice in the channel, she 
had to be made fast to a floeberg. At ten- 
thirty p. M., the lines were loosed and a new 
start made. Without further incident, we 
reached Black Cape. 
In rounding the cape the ship encountered a 
terrific storm, and it was with the greatest diffi- 
culty that she made any headway. The storm 
increased and the Roosevelt had to remain in 
the channel, surrounded by the tightly wedged 
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