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with a load of dog food and several dogs which I had purchased; 

 Mrs. Peary and myself went on. 



The round of Inglefield Gulf was completed in six and a half 

 days, during which time I discovered and named over thirty glaciers, 

 at least ten of which are of the first magnitude. I doubt if any 

 other known region shows glacial phenomena of such magnitude and 

 variety as the shores of this body of water. On the last day of April, 

 Dr. Cook, Gibson and Astrup, with five natives and eight dogs, 

 started to the head of McCormick Bay, to get the inland ice supplies 

 up the bluffs. May 3rd, I followed them with Matt and twelve dogs, 

 leaving Verhoeff at Redclifie to continue his meteorological and 

 tidal observations, in which he had become intensely interested. 

 Four days later, INIatt returned to Redcliffe. A week of hardest 

 work was consumed in transporting my supplies up hill and down 

 hill, across the succession of great ice domes intervening between 

 the shore and the edge of the true inland ice, fifteen miles distant. 



On the 15th of May, the actual start may be said to have been 

 made. My course was northeast true, which, assuming the charts to 

 be correct, should enable me to clear the heads of the Humboldt, 

 Petermann and Sherard Osborne indentations. Advancing on this 

 course, much to my surprise, I found myself almost immediately on 

 the divide, at an elevation of somewhat less than 5,000 feet, and 

 gradually descending toward the Humboldt Glacier Basin. Hardly 

 had I lost sight of the Whale Sound land before the distant peaks of 

 the Rensselaer Harbor coast rose into view. 



After a gradual descent to an elevation of about 3,500 feet the sur- 

 face of the ice became nearly constant as to elevation across the 

 Humboldt Glacier plateau. 



On the 24th of May, at a distance of 130 miles from McCormick 

 Bay, all my boys having volunteered to accompany me, I selected 

 Astrup as my companion for the long journey, and Gibson and Cook 

 returned to Redcliffe. Two marches beyond this we began climbing 

 again and on the last day of June had passed out of the Humboldt 

 depression, and from the plateau southeast of Petermann, at an 

 elevation of 4,200 feet, looked down upon the head of that Fjord and 

 the great glacier discharging into it. Still ascending, we reached 

 the summit at an elevation of 5,700 feet, June 5th, and then began 

 descending into the St. George and Sherard Osborne depressions. 

 Unfortunately, the next two marches were made in cloudy weathen 

 and I got too deeply into the depression, and too near the center of 



