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ridge, two men came running to meet us. They were the Chief and
one of the sailors, who helped us over the ridge to camp.

The next morning Kurraluk, McKinlay, Mamen and I
went back for bear meat while the rest were double-tripping stuff
towards the beach. We got ashore in Wrangell March 12th, having
had a fairly good road the forty miles from the ridge. There was
plenty of driftwood on the heach (for fuel and house building), which
was a godsend to us.

The next morning the Captain sent one of the Eskimos
and me out to look for the Mate’s and the Doctor’s parties but no
sled tracks or other signs were to be found anywhere on Wrangell
Island. Big fires were made with wet driftwood to cause smoke
which they could see a long way if they were there to see it.

The Captain and one of the natives started for Siberia
March 18th with fifty days’ rations for the men and thirty- days’ for
the dogs. We learned later they had a fairly easy trip, reaching
natives and traders seventeen days after they left us and thirteen days after they left Wrangell Island.

Chapter V
The Summer of 1914 on Wrangell Island

Shortly after the Captain left, Mamen, Malloch and
the steward left our camp near Waring Point and went to Rodgers
Harbor about thirty-five miles southwest, to live through the sum-
mer. The native went along to help them. About the end of
March the native returned. On the way back he killed a female bear
and two cubs. The next week he and I got two more bears and a
small cub.

As there did not seem to be much game near the shore,
the Eskimo and I went out to the edge of the landfast ice, forty-
miles from the coast, and made camp. Next morning bright and
early we wnt went out to the open water about three miles beyond the
ridge and got five seals. For two or three days after that the