The Last Voyage of the Karluk, Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16
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Yet, wherever it is practicable to wear them, snowshoes are indispensable in Arctic travel and I should as willingly do without food as without snowshoes. At this point we threw all the supplies off the sledge excepting enough for one day and, with the sledge light, made the road with . pickaxes towards the land. The Eskimo now showed by his manner that he was feeling more optimistic. Finally, as we were working our way through the rough ice, he said that he smelled wood-smoke, and asked whethe...r I smelled it, too. I did not but I had no doubt that he did, for an Eskimo's sense of smeU is remarkably acute. I felt sure that we were not far from human habitation, though just what this might be I could only guess. From the leaves of the "Amer- ican Coast Pilot" that I had with me, I was able to learn that "the northeast coast of Siberia has been only slightly examined, and the charts must be taken as sketches and only approximately accurate. The first examination was by Cook, in 1778; the next exploration was by Admiral von Wrangell in 1820; in 1878, Baron Nordenskiold, in the Vega, passed along the coast, having completed the N.
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