The dogs were landed on an island, the _Roosevelt_ was washed, the boilers were blown down and filled with fresh water, the furnaces cleaned, and the cargo overhauled and re-stowed to put the vessel in fighting trim for her coming encounter with the ice.

About three hundred tons of coal were transferred from the _Erik_ to the _Roosevelt_, and about fifty tons of walrus and whale meat.
Fifty tons of coal were cached at Etah for the _Roosevelt's_ expected return the following year.

Two men, boatswain Murphy and Pritchard, the cabin boy, with full provisions for two years, were left in charge.
Harry Whitney, a summer passenger on the _Erik_, who was ambitious to obtain musk-oxen and polar bears, asked permission to remain with my two men at Etah.

The permission was granted, and Mr.Whitney's belongings were landed.
At Etah, Rudolph Franke, who had come north with Dr.Cook in 1907, came to me and asked permission to go home on the _Erik_.

He showed me a letter from Dr.Cook directing him to go home this season on a whaler.
An examination by Dr.Goodsell, my surgeon, showed that the man suffered from incipient scurvy, and that he was in a serious mental state, so I had no alternative but to give him passage home on the _Erik_.