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CHAPTER XVI.
ICE-BOUND IN THE ARCTIC SEA.
Frozen-in on Kangelak—Native Habits—We send for Relief—The Dolgan
Nalthanoff—Arrival of the Relief Party—Sledge Dogs—We start for
the Olenek—Sledging Mishaps—An Arctic Post-Office—We reach
the Olenek.
Our party thus entrapped on the island of Kangelak
consisted of eight persons—namely, Mr. Frænkel, Mr.
Torgersen, five natives and myself. There was nothing to do
but to try and make our captivity as tolerable as possible
until we could take measures to obtain relief.
The yurta provided good shelter, and there was plenty
of fuel in the shape of driftwood. We also had some
provisions—some cocoa, tea, and coffee, as well as tobacco;
and as mainstay a few pounds of rye biscuits, the greater
part of which, however, had become mouldy during the
wet summer. But this was to last us all the way to the
mouth of the Yenisei! We had, too, some reindeer-meat,
but this would not last long, and there was no possibility
of shooting anything before the sea was sufficiently frozen
to make it possible for us to get to the delta in search
of ptarmigan and reindeer. The natives told us, it is true,
that some years ago the polar-bears had visited this island
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