Identifier: reportofcruiseof03unit (find matches)
Title: Report of the cruise of the U.S. revenue cutter Bear and the overland expedition for the relief of the whalers in the Arctic ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: United States. Revenue-Cutter Service
Subjects: Bear (Ship)
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ahead to pick out the Avay and I was left to man-age the heaAry sled, which was continualljr capsizing in the rough ice,and it Avas about all we both could do to right it. About 8 oclock IAAas cornpletety played out and quite Avilling to camp. But Artisar-look said no, it Avas too cold to camp Avithout wood, and, as the iceAve Avere on was in danger of breaking off from the shore any minute,it Avas necessary that we get beyond the line of bluffs before stop-ping. In the darkness I stepped through a crack in the ice, and myleg to the knee was immediately one mass of ice. I AAras uoav com-pelled to go on to some place Avhere my foot gear could be dried, and,though almost ready to drop where I Avas, I had to keep on, for tostop, meant to freeze. Pushing and lifting our sled, and urging thedogs, Ave dragged along until midnight, AA-hen Ave came to a house,high up on the shore, that Artisarlook some time before had told moabout. Though it turned out to be a horrible place, no palace could
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W. T. LOPP, SUPERINTENDENT OF TELLER REINDEER STATION, 1893-94. CRUISE OF THE U. S. REVENUE CUTTER BEAR. 55 have been more welcome. It was a small lint, about 10 by 12, and 5feet high, and 15 people were already sleeping there. It was mostfilthy and the worst house I have seen in all my Alaskan experience;but I was too tired then to care for that, too tired even to eat; andthough I had had nothing but a couple of crackers since morning, Iwas quite satisfied to take off my wet clothing, crawl into mjT bag,and sleep. January 24..—When we awoke in the morning the natives had driedour clothes, and urged us to stay, as the blizzard was still raging out-side, but their hut was too filthy to remain in it any longer thannecessary. The air Avas horrible, and it was refreshing to get out-side and to be going again through the storm and over the rough ice.Even Artisarlook found difficulty in eating his breakfast, and ex-plained to me that the house and the people were too dirty for him toeat a

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