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to find him. As with Markham, scurvy had begun on 

 the outward journey, and it had become so bad on the 

 return that one of the men was being sent off to the 

 ship when May arrived with help. It had nevertheless 

 been a successful journey, the road being easier than that 

 by the northern route. Aldrich had traced the continu- 

 ous border of the heavy pack for two hundred miles from 

 Floeberg Beach, rounded Cape Columbia, in 83 1' N., 

 the northernmost point of Grant Land, and, along the 

 coast trending steadily south-west, had reached longi- 

 tude 85 33' and sighted Cape Alfred Ernest in 

 longitude 86 J. 



With his arrival there were over forty scurvy patients 

 on board the Alert ; and Nares was to learn that the 

 sledge parties from the Discovery had been similarly 

 affected. Lieutenant Beaumont had gone along the 

 North Greenland coast, reaching, on the 21st of May, 

 51 W., in 82 20' N., and sighting Cape May, Mount 

 Hooker, and Cape Britannia. On the 10th of May, 

 while on his outward journey, he had sent back Lieu- 

 tenant Rawson to bring a relief party to meet him, and 

 Rawson with Hans and eight dogs, accompanied by 

 Doctor Coppinger, reached him on the 25th of June 

 when he was on his last possible day's journey, he and 

 two of his men dragging the sledge with four helpless 

 comrades lashed on the top of it. 



The Discovery had also sent out Lieutenant Archer 

 to survey the fiord named after him, which opens out 

 into Lady Franklin Bay; and Lieutenant Fulford had 

 crossed the channel and explored Petermann Fiord. 

 In fact, the expedition's geographical work was of great 

 extent, as was the other scientific work, the most im- 



