102 Ohlin, Zoological observations during Peary Auxiliary Expedition 1894. 



The same day we met with the first floeice increasing in thickness 

 the more northward we proceeded. Crossing Melville Bay pretty near 

 the coast and having been nipped several times in its vast packice- 

 fields, we reached Cape York in lat. 75 55' N. July 23; there a short 

 stop was made and the Eskimo - settlement visited. Carey -Islands 

 having been explored the next day for the purpose of finding traces 

 of the missing Swedish expedition of Bj fir ling and Kallstenius 

 we arrived on July 25 at the entrance of Inglefield Gulf. Trying in 

 vain to get through the winterice, with which the whole bay was 

 filled, we started on August 5 for Ellesmere Land having taken on 

 board four of Peary's companions and an Eskimo with a dogteaiu. 

 On the American side of Smith Sound we landed at Cape Faraday 

 in lat. 77 38' N. August 7 and at Clarence Head situated about 

 60 miles (Engl.) further south in the evening of the following day. 

 No relics or cairns from the Swedish expedition having been found 

 and the floeice surrounding the coast very far out in the sea, we did 

 not stop at any more places on this inhospitable shore. Then we 

 tried to penetrate Jones Sound, but finding the ice and weather as 



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unfavourable as before, we returned August 12. Baffin Bay crossed 

 once more, Falcon succeeded, at last, one week later, in reaching 

 Peary's winterhouse at the inner end of Bowdoin Bay. Here Peary's 

 .party, except Peary himself and two others who are going to stay 



