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THE SITUATION.
269
year; but while I had no hesitation in setting out
with dog-sledges at that period, the recollection of
Dr. Kane's disasters were too fresh in my mind to
justify me in sending out a foot party in the March
temperatures.
While waiting for the frost to build a bridge for me
around Sunrise Point, I was feeding up and strengthening my dogs. They soon proved to be very inferior to the animals which I had lost, and it was necessary to give them as much rest and good rations as
possible. I went repeatedly to Chester Valley in pursuit of reindeer. Along the borders of the lake these
beasts had flocked in great numbers during the winter, and whole acres of snow had been tossed up with
their hoofs, while searching for the dead vegetation
of the previous summer. The rabbits and the ptarmigan had followed them, to gather the buds of the
willow-stems which were occasionally tossed up, and
which form their subsistence. During one of my
journeys I secured a fine specimen skin of a doe, but
in order to do this I was obliged to take it off with
my own hands before it should freeze. The temperature at the time was 33° below zero, and I do not ever
remember to have had my regard for Natural History
so severely tested.
I was exceedingly anxious to recover the body of
Mr. Sonntag before I left the vessel; and, desiring to
secure the assistance of Kalutunah for that purpose, I
drove over to Etah a few days after he had become
fixed there. I had eleven of my new dogs harnessed
to the sledge, and Jensen "was himself again."
I found Kalutunah very comfortably fixed and apparently well contented. I carried with me as a present
for a house-warming a quarter of a recently-captured
| Title | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1867. The open Polar Sea. |
| Alternative Title | The open Polar Sea: a narrative of a voyage of discovery towards the North pole, in the schooner "United States". By Dr. I.I. Hayes. |
| Reference Title | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1867. The open Polar Sea. |
| Creator | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881. |
| Subject |
United States (Schooner). Arctic regions. Gold blocked bindings (Binding) -- 19th c. |
| Publisher | New York, Published by Hurd and Houghton. |
| DateOriginal | 1867 |
| Format | JP2 |
| Extent | 22 cm. |
| Identifier | ice112 |
| Call Number | G665 1860.H41 |
| Language | English |
| Collection | Polar Expeditions |
| Rights | http://www.lindahall.org/imagerepro/ |
| Data Contributor | Linda Hall Library, LHL Digital Collections |
| Title | Page 269. |
| Format | tiff |
| Format-Original | tiff |
| Identifier | ice112309 |
| Relation-Is part of | Is part of: The open Polar Sea. |
| Rights | http://www.lindahall.org/imagerepro/ |
| OCR Transcript | THE SITUATION. 269 year; but while I had no hesitation in setting out with dog-sledges at that period, the recollection of Dr. Kane's disasters were too fresh in my mind to justify me in sending out a foot party in the March temperatures. While waiting for the frost to build a bridge for me around Sunrise Point, I was feeding up and strengthening my dogs. They soon proved to be very inferior to the animals which I had lost, and it was necessary to give them as much rest and good rations as possible. I went repeatedly to Chester Valley in pursuit of reindeer. Along the borders of the lake these beasts had flocked in great numbers during the winter, and whole acres of snow had been tossed up with their hoofs, while searching for the dead vegetation of the previous summer. The rabbits and the ptarmigan had followed them, to gather the buds of the willow-stems which were occasionally tossed up, and which form their subsistence. During one of my journeys I secured a fine specimen skin of a doe, but in order to do this I was obliged to take it off with my own hands before it should freeze. The temperature at the time was 33° below zero, and I do not ever remember to have had my regard for Natural History so severely tested. I was exceedingly anxious to recover the body of Mr. Sonntag before I left the vessel; and, desiring to secure the assistance of Kalutunah for that purpose, I drove over to Etah a few days after he had become fixed there. I had eleven of my new dogs harnessed to the sledge, and Jensen "was himself again." I found Kalutunah very comfortably fixed and apparently well contented. I carried with me as a present for a house-warming a quarter of a recently-captured |
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