We continued toiling1 on with our complicated preparations till the evening of the 24th, when Hans came back well laden2 with walrus3 meat. Three of the Esquimaux accompanied him, each with his sledge4 and dog-team fully5 equipped for a hunt. The leader of the party, Kalutunah, was a noble savage6, greatly superior in everything to the others of his race. He greeted me with respectful courtesy, yet as one who might rightfully expect an equal measure of it in return, and, after a short interchange of salutations, seated himself in the post of honour at my side.
I waited, of course, till the company had fed and slept, for among savages7 especially haste is indecorous, and then, after distributing a few presents, opened to them my project of a northern exploration. Kalutunah received his knife and needles with a “Kuyanake,” “I thank you:” the first thanks I have heard from a native of this upper region. He called me his friend,—“Asakaoteet,” “I love you well,”—and would be happy, he said, to join the “nalegak-soak” in a hunt.
The project was one that had engaged my thoughts long before daylight had renewed the possibility of carrying it out. I felt that the further shores beyond Kennedy Channel were still to be searched before our work could be considered finished; but we were without dogs, the indispensable means of travel. We had only four left out of sixty-two. Famine among the Esquimaux had been as disastrous9 as disease with us: they had killed all but thirty, ? 169 ? and of these there were now sixteen picketed10 on the ice about the brig. The aid and influence of Kalutunah could secure my closing expedition.
I succeeded in making my arrangements with him, provisionally at least, and the morning after we all set out. The party consisted of Kalutunah, Shang-hu, and Tatterat, an outlandish Esquimaux, who had his name from the Kitty-wake Gull11, with their three sledges12. Hans, armed with the Marston rifle, was my only companion from the ship’s company. The natives carried no arms but the long knife and their unicorn13 ivory lances. Our whole equipment was by no means cumbersome14: except the clothes upon our back and raw walrus-meat, we carried nothing.
Setting Out
We started with a wild yell of dogs and men in chorus, Kalutunah and myself leading. In about two hours we had reached a high berg about fifteen miles north of the brig. Here I reconnoitred the ice ahead. It was not cheering: the outside tide-channel, where I had broken through the fall before, was now full of squeezed ice, and the plain beyond the bergs seem much distorted. The Esquimaux, nevertheless, acceded16 to my wish to attempt the passage, and we were soon among the hummocks17. We ran beside our sledges, clinging to the upstanders, but making, perhaps, four miles an hour where, unassisted by the dogs, we could certainly have made but one. Things began to look more auspicious18.
We halted for lunch about thirty miles north of the brig, after having edged along the coast about thirty miles eastward19. Lunch over, the journey began again, and we should have accomplished20 my wishes had it not been for the untoward21 influence of sundry22 bears. The tracks of these animals were becoming more and more numerous as we rounded one iceberg23 after another; and ? 170 ? we could see the beds they had worn in the snow while watching for seal. These swayed the dogs from their course: yet we kept edging onwards; and when in sight of the northern coast, about thirty miles from the central peak of the “Three Brothers,” I saw a deep band of stratus lying over the horizon in the direction of Kennedy Channel. This water-sky indicated the continued opening of the channel, and made me more deeply anxious to proceed. But at this moment our dogs encountered a large male bear in the act of devouring24 a seal. The impulse was irresistible25; I lost all control over both dogs and drivers. They seemed dead to everything but the passion of pursuit. Off they sped with incredible swiftness, the Esquimaux clinging to their sledges, and cheering their dogs with loud cries of “Nannook!” A mad, wild chase, wilder than German legend,—the dogs, wolves; the drivers, devils. After a furious run, the animal was brought to bay; the lance and the rifle did their work, and we halted for a general feed. The dogs gorged26 themselves, the drivers did as much, and we buried the remainder of the carcass in the snow. A second bear had been tracked by the party to a large iceberg north of Cape27 Russel; for we had now travelled to the neighbourhood of the Great Glacier28. But the dogs were too much distended29 by their abundant diet to move: their drivers were scarcely better. Rest was indispensable.
We took a four hours’ sleep on the open ice, the most uncomfortable that I remember. Our fatigue30 had made us dispense31 with the snow-house; and, though I was heavily clad in a full suit of furs, and squeezed myself in between Kalutunah and Shang-hu, I could not bear the intense temperature. I rose in the morning stiff and sore. I mention it as a trait of nobleness on the part of Kalutunah, ? 171 ? which I appreciated very sensibly at the time, that, seeing me suffer, he took his kapetah from his back and placed it around my feet.
The next day I tried again to make my friends steer32 to the northward33. But the bears were most numerous upon the Greenland side; and they determined34 to push on toward the glacier. They were sure, they said, of finding the game among the broken icebergs35 at the base of it. All my remonstrances36 and urgent entreaties37 were unavailing to make them resume their promised route. They said that to cross so high up as we then were was impossible, and I felt the truth of this when I remembered the fate of poor Baker38 and Schubert at this very passage. Kalutunah added, significantly, that the bear-meat was absolutely necessary for the support of their families, and that Nalegak had no right to prevent him from providing for his household. It was a strong argument, and withal the argument of the strong.
Bear Hunting
I found now that my projected survey of the northern coast must be abandoned, at least for the time. My next wish was to get back to the brig, and to negotiate with Metek for a purchase or loan of his dogs as my last chance. But even this was not readily gratified. All of Saturday was spent in bear-hunting. The natives, as indomitable as their dogs, made the entire circuit of Dallas Bay, and finally halted again under one of the islands which group themselves between the headlands of Advance Bay and at the base of the glacier.
While the Esquimaux were hunting about the bergs, I sat and took a sketch39 of the glacier; seeing them come to a halt above the island, I gained the nearest sledge, and the whole party gathered together a few miles from the face of the glacier. Here Hans and myself crawled with ? 172 ? Tatterat and his dogs into an impromptu40 snow-hut, and, cheered by our aggregated41 warmth, slept comfortably. Our little dome42, or rather burrow43, for it was scooped44 out of a drift, fell down in the night; but we were so worn out that it did not wake us.
On rising from a sleep in the open air, at a temperature of 12° below zero, the hunt was resumed along the face of the glacier, with just enough of success to wear out the dogs and endanger my chances of return to the brig. In spite of the grandeur45 of the scenery and the noble displays of force exhibited by the falling bergs, my thoughts wandered back to the party I had left; and I was really glad when Kalutunah yielded to my renewed persuasion46, and turned his team toward the ice-belt of the south-eastern shore.
The spot at which we landed I have called Cape James Kent. It was a lofty headland, and the land-ice which hugged its base was covered with rocks from the cliffs above. As I looked over this ice-belt, losing itself in the far distance, and covered with its millions of tons of rubbish, greenstones, limestones47, chlorite slates48, rounded and angular, massive and ground to powder, its importance as a geological agent in the transportation of drift struck me with great force. Its whole substance was studded with these varied49 contributions from the shore; and further to the south, upon the now frozen waters of Marshall Bay, I could recognise raft after raft from the last year’s ice-belt, which had been caught by the winter, each one laden with its heavy freight of foreign material.
On the south-eastern corner of this bay, where some low islands at the mouth of the fiord formed a sort of protection against the north wind, was a group of Esquimaux remains,—huts, cairns, and graves. Though evidently ? 173 ? long deserted50, my drivers seemed to know all about them, for they suspended the hunt around the bergs to take a look at these evidences of a bygone generation of their fathers.
There were five huts, with two stone pedestals for the protection of meat, and one of those strange little kennels51 which serve as dormitories when the iglo? is crowded. The graves were further up the fiord; from them I obtained a knife of bone, but no indications of iron.
“The Inhabited Spot”
These huts stood high up, upon a set of shingle52 terraces, similar to those of Rensselaer Bay. The belt-ice at their foot was old and undisturbed, and must have been so for years; so, too, was the heavy ice of the bay. Yet around these old homesteads were bones of the seal and walrus, and the vertebr? of a whale similar to that of the iglo? of Anoatok. There must have been both open water and a hunting-ground around them, and the huts had in former days been close upon this water-line. “Una suna nuna?” “What land is this, Kalutunah?” I did not understand his answer, which was long and emphatic53; but I found from our interpreter that the place was still called “the inhabited spot;” and that a story was well preserved among them of a time when families were sustained beside its open water, and musk-ox inhabited the hills. We followed the belt-ice, crossing only at the headlands of the bays, and arrived at the brig on the afternoon of Wednesday.
The Esquimaux left the brig after a day’s rest, fully laden with wood and other presents, and promising54 to engage Metek, if they could, to come up with his four dogs. They themselves engaged to lend me one dog from each of their teams. It pleased me to find that I had earned character with these people, at first so suspicious ? 174 ? and distrustful. They left on board each man his dog, without a shade of doubt as to my good faith, only begging me to watch the poor animals’ feet, as the famine had nearly exterminated55 their stock.
The month of May had come. Metek, less confiding56 because less trustworthy than Kalutunah, did not bring his dogs, and my own exhausted57 team was in almost daily requisition to bring in supplies of food from Etah. Everything admonished58 me that the time was at hand when we must leave the brig and trust our fortunes to the floes. Our preparations were well advanced, and the crew so far restored to health that all but three or four could take some part in completing them.
Still, I could not allow myself to pass away from our region of search without a last effort to visit the furthest shores of the channel. Our communications with the Esquimaux, and some successful hunts of our own, had given us a stock of provisions for at least a week in advance. I conferred with my officers, made a full distribution of the work to be performed in my absence, and set out once more, with Morton for my only companion. We took with us the light sledge, adding the two borrowed dogs to our team, but travelling ourselves on foot. Our course was to be by the middle ice, and our hope that we might find it free enough from hummocks to permit us to pass.
My journal, written after our return, gives nothing but a series of observations going to verify and complete my charts. We struggled manfully, through days and nights of adventurous59 exposure and recurring60 disaster, to force our way, and at last found our way back to the brig, Morton broken down anew, and my own energies just ? 175 ? adequate to the duty of supervising our final departure. I had neither time nor strength to expend61 on my diary.
The operations of the search were closed.
Preparing for Retreat
The detailed62 preparations for our escape would have little interest for the general reader; but they were so arduous63 and so important that I cannot pass them by without a special notice. They had been begun from an early day of the fall, and had not been entirely64 intermitted during our severest winter-trials. All who could work, even at picking over eider-down, found every moment of leisure fully appropriated. But since our party had begun to develop the stimulus65 of more liberal diet, our labours were more systematic66 and diversified67.
The manufacture of clothing had made considerable progress. Canvas mocassins had been made for every one of the party, and three dozen were added as a common stock to meet emergencies. Three pairs of boots were allowed each man. These were generally of carpeting, with soles of walrus and seal hide; and when the supply of these was exhausted, the leather from the chaffing-gear of the brig for a time supplied their place. A much better substitute was found afterward68 in the gutta-percha that had formed the speaking-tube. This was softened69 by warm water, cut into Lengths, and so made available to its new uses. Blankets were served out as the material for body clothing. Every man was his own tailor.
For bedding, the woollen curtains that had formerly70 decorated our berths71 supplied us with a couple of large coverlets, which were abundantly quilted with eider-down. Two buffalo-robes of the same size, with the coverlets, were arranged so as to button on them, forming sleeping-sacks for the occasion, but easily detached for the purpose of drying or airing.
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Our provision-bags were of assorted72 sizes, to fit under the thwarts73 of the boats. They were of sailcloth, made water-tight by tar15 and pitch, which we kept from penetrating75 the canvas by first coating it with flour-paste and plaster of Paris. The bread-bags were double, the inner saturated76 with paste and plaster by boiling in the mixture, and the space between the two filled with pitch. Every bag was, in sailor-phrase, roped and becketed; in ordinary parlance77, well secured by cordage.
These different manufactures had all of them been going on through the winter, and more rapidly as the spring advanced. They had given employment to the thoughts of our sick men, and in this way had exerted a wholesome78 influence on their moral tone and assisted their convalescence79. Other preparations had been begun more recently. The provisions for the descent were to be got ready and packed. The ship-bread was powdered by beating it with a capstan-bar, and pressed down into the bags which were to carry it. Pork-fat and tallow were melted down, and poured into other bags to freeze. A stock of concentrated bean-soup was cooked, and secured for carriage like the pork-fat; and the flour and remaining meat-biscuit were to be protected from moisture in double bags. These were the only provisions we were to carry with us. I knew I should be able to subsist80 the party for some time after their setting out by the food I could bring from the vessel81 by occasional trips with my dog-team. For the rest we relied upon our guns.
Besides all this, we had our camp equipage to get in order, and the vitally important organization of our system of boats and sledges.
The Boats
Our boats were three in number, all of them well battered82 ? 177 ? by exposure to ice and storm, almost as destructive of their sea-worthiness as the hot sun of other regions. Two of them were cypress83 whale-boats, twenty-six feet long, with seven feet beam, and three feet deep. These were strengthened with oak bottom-pieces and a long string-piece bolted to the keel. A wash board of light cedar84, about six inches high, served to strengthen the gunwale and give increased depth. A neat housing of light canvas was stretched upon a ridge-line sustained fore8 and aft by stanchions, and hung down over the boats’ sides, where it was fastened (stopped) to a jack-stay. My last year’s experience on the attempt to reach Beechy Island determined me to carry but one mast to each boat. It was stepped into an oaken thwart74, made especially strong, as it was expected to carry sail over ice as well as water; the mast could be readily unshipped, and carried, with the oars85, boat-hooks, and ice-poles, alongside the boat. The third boat was my little Red Eric. We mounted her on the old sledge, the Faith, hardly relying on her for any purposes of navigation, but with the intention of cutting her up for firewood in case our guns should fail to give us a supply of blubber.
Indeed, in spite of all the ingenuity86 of our carpenter, Mr Ohlsen, well seconded by the persevering87 labours of M’Gary and Bonsall, not one of our boats was positively88 sea-worthy. The Hope would not pass even charitable inspection89, and we expected to burn her on reaching water. The planking of all of them was so dried it could hardly be made tight by calking.
The three boats were mounted on sledges rigged with rue-raddies; the provisions stowed snugly90 under the thwarts; the chronometers91 carefully boxed and padded, placed in the stern-sheets of the Hope, in charge of Mr Sontag. With ? 178 ? them were such of the instruments as we could venture to transport.
Our powder and shot, upon which our lives depended, were carefully distributed in bags and tin canisters. The percussion-caps I took into my own possession, as more precious than gold. Mr Bonsall had a general charge of the arms and ammunition92. Places were arranged for the guns, and hunters appointed for each boat. Mr Petersen took charge of the most important part of our field-equipage, our cooking gear. Petersen was our best tinker. All the old stove-pipe, now none the better for two winters of Arctic fires, was called into requisition. Each boat was provided with two large iron cylinders93, fourteen inches in diameter and eighteen high. Each of them held an iron saucer or lamp, in which we could place our melted pork-fat or blubber, and, with the aid of spun-yarn for a wick, make a roaring fire. I need not say that the fat and oil always froze when not ignited.
Into these cylinders, which were used merely to defend our lamp from the wind, and our pots from contact with the cold air, we placed a couple of large tin vessels94, suitable either for melting snow or making tea or soup. They were made out of cake-canisters cut down. How many kindly95 festival associations hung by these now abused soup-cans! One of them had, before the fire rubbed off its bright gilding96, the wedding inscription97 of a large fruit-cake.
We carried spare tins in case the others should burn out; it was well we did so. So completely had we exhausted our household furniture, that we had neither cups nor plates, except crockery. This, of course, would not stand the travel, and our spare tin had to be saved for protecting the boats from ice. At this juncture98 we cut plates out of every imaginable and rejected piece of tin-ware. ? 179 ? Borden’s meat-biscuit canisters furnished us with a splendid dinner-service; and some rightly-feared tin jars, with ominous99 labels of Corrosive100 Sublimate101 and Arsenic102, which once belonged to our department of natural history, were emptied, scoured103, and cut down into tea-cups.
Final Orders
Recognising the importance of acting104 directly upon the men’s minds, my first step now was to issue a general order appointing a certain day, the 17th of May, for setting out. Every man had twenty-four hours given him to select and get ready his eight pounds of personal effects. After that, his time was to cease to be his own for any purpose. The long-indulged waywardness of our convalescents made them take this hardly. Some who were at work on articles of apparel that were really important to them threw them down unfinished, in a sick man’s pet. I had these in some cases picked up quietly and finished by others. But I showed myself inexorable. It was necessary to brace105 up and concentrate every man’s thoughts and energies upon the one great common object, our departure from the vessel on the 17th, not to return.
I tried my best also to fix and diffuse106 impressions that we were going home. But in this I was not always successful. I was displeased107, indeed, with the moody108 indifference109 with which many went about the tasks to which I put them. The completeness of my preparations I know had its influence; but there were many doubters. Some were convinced that my only object was to move further south, retaining the brig, however, as a home to retreat to. Others whispered that I wanted to transport the sick to the hunting grounds and other resources of the lower settlements. A few of a more cheerful spirit thought I had resolved to make for some point of look-out, in the hope of ? 180 ? a rescue by whalers or English expedition parties which were supposed still to be within the Arctic circle. The number is unfortunately small of those human beings whom calamity110 elevates.
There was no sign or affectation of spirit or enthusiasm upon the memorable111 day when we first adjusted the boats to their cradles on the sledges and moved them off to the ice-foot. But the ice immediately around the vessel was smooth; and, as the boats had not received their lading, the first labour was an easy one. As the runners moved, the gloom of several countenances112 were perceptibly lightened. The croakers had protested that we could not stir an inch. These cheering remarks always reach a commander’s ears, and I took good care of course to make the outset contradict them. By the time we reached the end of our little level, the tone had improved wonderfully, and we were prepared for the effort of crossing the successive lines of the belt-ice and forcing a way through the smashed material which interposed between us and the ice-foot.
This was a work of great difficulty, and sorrowfully exhausting to the poor fellows not yet accustomed to heave together. But in the end I had the satisfaction, before twenty-four hours were over, of seeing our little arks of safety hauled upon the higher plane of the ice-foot, in full trim for ornamental113 exhibition from the brig; their neat canvas-housing rigged, tent-fashion, over the entire length of each; a jaunty114 little flag, made out of one of the commander’s obsolete115 linen116 shirts, decorated in stripes from a disused article of stationery117, the red-ink bottle, and with a very little of the blue-bag in the star-spangled corner. All hands after this returned on board; I had ready for them the best supper our supplies afforded, and they turned in with minds prepared for their departure next day.
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They were nearly all of them invalids118, unused to open air and exercise. It was necessary to train them very gradually. We made but two miles the first day, and with a single boat; and indeed for some time after this I took care that they should not be disheartened by overwork. They came back early to a hearty119 supper and warm beds, and I had the satisfaction of marching them back each recurring morning refreshed and cheerful. The weather, happily, was superb.
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