Klengenberg

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from a final decree in admiralty. In view of the two appeals, we will refer to the parties as they were designated in the court below.

The libel contains two causes of action: The first for failure on the part of the respondent to deliver certain merchandise and supplies at a point on the Wollaston Peninsula in the Arctic Ocean, about 1,260 miles from the North Pole; and the second for failure on the part of the respondent to transport certain furs from the point on the Wollaston Peninsula to San Francisco. The facts and surrounding circumstances are about as follows:

The libelant has been a trapper and fur trader in the Arctic regions since 1896. For about four years prior to 1920 he was located *612 on the Coppermine river, but in- the latter year he moved his camp to the point now in question on Wollaston Peninsula. Prior to 1919 he traded almost exclusively with the Hudson Bay Company, but in 1919 he traded with Capt. Pederson, representing the respondent; and with others, and in 1920 withPederson and the Northern Trading Company. Por a great many years last, past the respondent has been engaged in the fur business at San Francisco, It has…