IVBelgrade got together his outfit—three days’ supply of provisions, a small pneumatic boat, warm clothes, navigating instruments, and a small receiving set by which he could learn the position of the ship in case ice or storm forced her to weigh anchor. He had, however, no sending set. He did not wish to give any information to the listening air until his venture was complete. He armed himself with a rifle but, for reasons of his own, provided no weapon for his companion. Adam’s outfit consisted of warm clothes, a hunting knife, his medical bag, and a few personal things.
They hopped off in the seaplane, crossed the ice barrier, and twenty minutes later were looking down on the Moss Country—limitless tracts of muskeg and tundra similar to northern Alaska. It was a bleak, desolate region,
