CHAPTER VI.
"So I think, captain, you will agree that we must exaggerate the seriousness of the situation." Jacob Welse helped his visitor into his fur great-coat and went on.

"Not that it is not serious, but that it may not become more serious.

Both you and I have handled famines before.

We must frighten them, and frighten them now, before it is too late.

Take five thousand men out of Dawson and there will be grub to last.