Even on the return journey, in 1906, it was the same--as if the ship realized she had not accomplished her purpose and wanted to go back.

The sailors noticed it, and used to talk about it.

They said the _Roosevelt_ was not satisfied, that she knew she had not done her work.
When we got the vessel as near the shore as possible, the ship's people began to make her ready for the winter.

The engine-room force was busy blowing down the boilers, putting the machinery out of commission, removing every drop of water from the pipes and elbows so the cold of winter should not burst them; and the crew was busy taking down the sails, slacking off the rigging, so the contraction from the intense cold of winter should not cause damage, with a thousand and one details of like character.
Before the sails were taken down, they were all set, that they might be thoroughly dried out by sun and wind.

The ship was a beautiful sight, held fast in the embrace of the ice and with her cables out, but with every sail filled with wind like a yacht in a race.
While this work was going on small hunting parties of Eskimos were sent to the Lake Hazen region, but they met with little success.