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found very few eggs in the nests, and got only fifteen 

 hundred. 



On the 8th Jot and I awoke in our little tent in Cache 

 Cove to find it blowing, raining, and snowing. Here un- 

 doubtedly was the site of the Beebe cache of 1882 and 

 of the relief cache left by Seabury in 1883 for the ill- 

 fated Greely party. On the southern side of the island, 

 while searching for eggs of the sea-pigeon, I was de- 

 lighted to discover the remains of the coal cache left by 

 Lieutenant Lockwood of the Lady Franklin Bay Ex- 

 pedition of 1881 when on its way to headquarters in 

 the far North. Here Lieutenant Greely had instructed 

 that records should be left, one in the top of a coal-pile 

 and one under its inner edge, for the guidance of the 

 relief-ships, should they fail to reach him in 1882 and 

 1883. On the southwest corner of the island were the 

 remains of the cairn of Doctor Kane, the cairn of the 

 British Expedition of 1875, and the cairn of Sir Allen 

 Young where mail was left by him for Sir George Nares 

 in 1876. 



There were many names carved on the surface of the 

 rock. We could see plainly "Otto Sverdrup,'' captain 

 of the Fram; also in big, bold letters ''Erik, 1875," re- 

 vealing the fact that the ship which had brought us 

 hither was well along in years, since she had visited 

 this spot forty years before in the character of a Dundee 

 whaler. 



On McGary's Rock, a favorite breeding-place of ducks 

 and gulls, we found two hundred eggs, and added them to 

 our stores for the following winter. On the morning of 

 the 10th, like Shackleton's penguins, we found ourselves 

 buried deep under the snow. That such an amount 

 could fall within a few hours seemed incredible. Jot, 



