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Trusting that you are all well and have succeeded in your arduous 

 work. Yours truly, 



Allen Young. 

 Landed at 1 A. M. August 25, and on examination found the cask 

 to be empty and the cans to contain preserved meat. They will be 

 left as they were found. 



It is evident no sledge party has visited this place. 



Charles W. Arbuthnot. 



An interesting letter, showing as it does that Captain 

 Nares had been here, had stood within twenty feet of 

 his mail, and had failed to find it. 



I now decided to return to Etah, and, if Rasmussen 

 had not arrived on his way northward, I would then 

 attempt the exploration of the Peary Channel. 



On the return we swung up into Baird Inlet for a sur- 

 vey of its unexplored shores. The inner reaches of this 

 fiord were so deep in snow that our dogs wallowed up 

 to their necks. We had left our snow-shoes at the 

 mouth of the inlet, so we found it impossible to leave 

 the sledges and thus help out the dogs. We had no tent 

 and the snow was not suitable for building purposes. 

 For a time it seemed likely that we were to sleep in the 

 open with our backs against our sledges. Finally 

 Ark-pood-a-shah-o discovered a mass of snow somewhat 

 different in its appearance from its surroundings; this 

 he declared to be an avalanche of snow, which had 

 shot down from the cliffs above with such force that the 

 concussion had solidified it into excellent building 

 material. 



The shores of this inlet consist of a series of beautiful 

 glaciers, many of which I named after my fellow- workers, 

 Ekblaw, Tanquary, Green, Allen, Hunt, and Small. 

 Those on the north side seemed fairly to tumble from 

 the snow-covered heights above in their eagerness to 



