Summary

Farley finally leaves Churchill during the last week in May in a plane operated by an ex-R.A.F. pilot from Yellowknife. Luckily, he is able to trade a gallon of alcohol for a seventeen foot canoe which they lash to the underneath of the plane, and in it he hides the Moose Brand that had been considered non-essential and set aside to assure that they would be able to take off. When the plane is unable to do so, the pilot leaves behind his ‘reserve’ drums of fuel and they are able to get airborne after a few mechanical and environmental stutters. The pilot takes him about three hundred miles northwest of Churchill and leaves him on a frozen lake with all of his gear assuring him that he’ll return in the fall sometime, although there are lots of Eskimo...