Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by American Museum of Natural History Library.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
his host, in spite of his familiarity, [89]
with the Eskimo character. While we
were on shore delivering the machine
and setting it up, the "Ingerlis" ground
ed on the rocks and we were kept
prisoners on the island for seven hours,
until the tide came in and floated
the boat off again. When we left
to deliver the machine and set it up,
the boat Peter told Hendrik, who
serves as engineer, to push her off
cast
from shore and anchor, but the
Eskimo contented himself with letting
the mooring lines out somewhat and
lay down to sleep, having been up all
night running the engine. When Peter
[Il. Ootah + Micholu. Igloo? &]
and I came back to the cliffs in
course of a half-hour we were
just in time to see the "Ingerlis"
keel over on her side, breaking the