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ice having become strong enough for sledging, we sent two
of the natives back some 70 miles to the delta to procure
people and dogs for our passage across the Arctic Ocean
to the Olenek. Fearing, however, that through the lateness
of our start, added to the still further delay on the island
of Kangelak, we might not be able to reach the mouth
of the Olenek before the native nomads returned
southwards to their winter haunts in the forest, I considered it
necessary to send if possible a message to the Olenek as
well, in order that we might get some of the Tunguses to
delay their departure, and thus obtain reindeer for our long
journey over the tundras of the Taimyr Peninsula. Mr.
Frænkel having volunteered to accompany one of the natives
on this mission, it was decided that they should travel
along the western border of the delta in a southerly
direction to the mainland, and then follow the coast of the
Arctic Ocean westward to the Olenek, taking advantage
of the yurtas, which are from time to time met with
along the sea-shore, for shelter. This plan, as the reader
will learn, was successfully carried out.
On the fifteenth day of our imprisonment the Dolgan
Nalthanoff arrived, coming from the delta with his little
boy of five years old in reindeer-sledges. Nalthanoff,
an old acquaintance of our interpreter Mr. Torgersen,
was a great bear-hunter, and when he was informed
that I had killed a number of polar-bears I rose
greatly in his estimation, and we interchanged pipes
as a sign of hunting brotherhood. Nalthanoff, like most
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