Summary

The young man is a trapper named Mike, who is part Eskimo and part white. He is alone, other than his team of huskies and a small band of Eskimos (including his mother) who lives seventy miles north. Farley makes a deal to use his ‘cabin’ as a base, and Mike and his team of huskies help him to get his gear there. He maintains his distance, watching warily as Farley unpacks the various scientific tools supplied as his field laboratory. Farley shows him some of it, explaining how it works. However, when he shows him his collection of autopsy tools and explains their purpose using photos from a book, Mike suddenly realizes his mother is ill and has to leave. Farley is too preoccupied to consider how Mike could have known his mother was ill. Instead, he concentrates on his surroundings.

After...