WITH STEFANSSON.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2015, 24 March 1914, Page 9

WITH STEFANSSON.

A LETTER FROM AItASKA.

The following letter- has been received , by I\lr. H. li 1 . Ayson frotn jlr, Diainoml Jenness, of Lower Hutt, aivtlJFOpqlogsst of tho Stefaussou Arctie -tsiieditiplt :-^- "Poirit Barrow, .Alaska, Ocfohor 31, 1913.—1t has been a very barf yeas for ico conditions up hero., Almost fevery vessel has been caught. We had tilirce.•vessels—the Karluk, Alaska, ancl Jlary ■Fasli, tho f last two Ijeing aexil-iary schooners... _I \yas oii iho Kariu-k flWa she became.jammed, in about longitude--145 degrees,, about .August 11...'• ilrt Alaska and Mary Fas.].! were closer hi*, shore, and reached near- , to the Alaskan aud Canadiaji bouiidai'jv Ice prevented them frSft goj.jig ajidwin-' tering there. After tlia Karluk became- jammed in- the- ,i?e slio dpftod westward for about a moiitii. Wo remained stationary for a week. It peared as if we would- spend the restof the winter in this place, so one day (October 20) three <$ us, «1-sli. t-fr'a Esquimaux, left the .ship., with tmit-s, sledges, and dog tcajirs, to go asliwe and hunt caribou, got to a smull island, where' wo had'-I<s stay a- week because the strong wind- opened up great , cracks in .the ice. Tlje same windcarried off the Karlnk.. From tierft we made west, coming • finally to en Esquimaux settlement. ' No one knows what has become of the Karluk. Wo are having a better outflf liiadq here for travelling cast to tho Mary Fash and the Alaska. I aijt going oijly ris far as Cape Halkett, aiiid there stay 'with an Esquimaux family all'the win;ter and early spring. I-u the spring a sledge will come and take rns along to the others. As soon as ihe icS sets them free they will proceed fo Victor's Land, where we should nave been this winter."