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ice movement. As a result, about ten days were lost in getting out 

 again, and back on to the crevasse-free level heights farther inland. 



Again setting my course to the north and northeast everything 

 went smoothly until the 26th of June. On this day I was dis- 

 couraged to see the land, which had been occasionally visible in the 

 northwest, rise into view to the north, and then northeast. Then 

 the northwest entrance of a Fjord came into view, and we could 

 trace its course southeasterly just beyond the nearer mountains of 

 the land north and northeast. I changed my course to east, when I 

 was soon confronted by the land and the Fjord beyond. Then I 

 turned to the southeast, and travelled in that direction until the first 

 of July. A wide break in the land beyond the Fjord opened out 

 to the northeast, and I immediately headed for it. Land was 

 reached just before midnight of the 1st. On the 4th of July Astrup 

 and myself, having travelled some twenty-five miles over the coast 

 land, came out upon a vertical cliff about 3,500 feet higb, and saAV 

 below us the white expanse of the great bay into which the Fjord 

 debouched. This bay opened out to the northeast, and its distant 

 northern shore was free of snow and ice. In honor of the day, dear 

 to all of us, I named this bay Independence. Just to the east of my 

 observation spot, a huge glacier flowing due north discharged into 

 the bay. At its narrowest part, where vertical cliffs squeeze it 

 together, this glacier is ten to twelve miles wide, but the periphery 

 of its fan-shaped face in the bay, is not less than twenty miles in 

 extent. This glacier I have named the Academy Glacier. 



July 7th, we were back at the edge of the inland ice, and on the 

 8th began our uneventful return journey. Bearing more to the 

 south into the interior, in order to avoid the obstacles near the coast, 

 in four marches we were on the great central plateau, cloud-capped 

 and deep with snow. Here, at an average elevation of about 8,000 

 feet, we travelled for two weeks, then bearing to the westward, came 

 down to the 5,000 feet level east of the Humboldt Glacier, and thence 

 parallel to the outward route to the head of McCormick Bay. Just 

 before midnight of August 5th, we met Professor Heilprin and his 

 party, some ten miles from the edge of the ice, and early in the 

 morning of Saturday the 6th, we touched the shore of McCormick 

 Bay. 



Monday, the " Kite " steamed down to Redcliffe. The next day 

 I started up Whale Sound in one of my boats to get some tents and 

 sledges which I had purchased of the natives. A continuance of 



