"I wonder what they did with all the provisions they stole from us." "Probably they were taken from them in turn to feed those other Indians.

At any rate, they are destitute enough now, and we can't leave them here to die.

Go and bring Yim with the sled as quick as you can, while I wake up this fire." "All right," replied White, "only I'm afraid he won't come." "He must come," said Cabot decisively.
The hatred between Eskimo and Indian is so bitter that it took all White's powers of persuasion, together with certain threats, to bring Yim to the tent, but once there even he was sufficiently roused by its spectacle of suffering to bestir himself most actively.
During the next hour, while the starving, half-frozen Indians were warmed and fed, the rescuers discussed the situation and what should be done.

They could not leave the helpless family as they had found them, neither could they carry them away, and it would be folly to remain with them longer than was absolutely necessary.

They could not gain a word of information from the woman or children as to how they had arrived at such a pitiable plight, what they had done with the stolen provisions, why their friends had abandoned them, or what had become of Arsenic.
"I'll tell you what," said Cabot at length; "we'll provide them with a supply of wood and leave all the provisions we can possibly spare.
Then we will hurry on to Indian Harbour, send back some more provisions from there by Yim, and get him to report the case to Mr.Mellins." As there seemed nothing better to be done, this plan was carried out, though dividing the provisions made each portion look woefully small, and by noon the sledge was again on its way southward.
The head of the fiord having been reached, the trail now left the sheltering timber and struck across an open country, which was also extremely rugged, abounding in hills and hollows.