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Here the first information of the whereabouts of the 

 Greely party was found by Lieutenant Taunt. Return- 

 ing, I called at Stalknecht Island to search for the cairn 

 in which Lieutenant Harlow also found a record. How 

 thrilled those men on the Thetis must have been upon 

 observing the signal: "Have found Greely 's records; 

 send five men"! And with what emotion those records 

 were read in the ward-room! And with what anxiety 

 Schley signaled full speed ahead upon learning that 

 "the latest date borne by any of them was October 

 21, 1883, and that but forty days' complete rations 

 were left to live upon"! Historic ground.? Yes, every- 

 where ! 



The following morning we rounded the cape and 

 sledged up the coast of Bedford Pim Island to the Star- 

 vation Camp of Greely. Thirty-three years before the 

 Bear and the Thetis, under the command of Captain 

 Schley, had steamed along the same coast. Outlined 

 against the sky stood a man feebly waving a flag. As 

 the steam-launch reached the beach, the man stumbled 

 and fell, rose to his feet, and fell again. Finally, he 

 clutched the bow of the boat. Seven were left out of 

 twenty-five. 



I walked to the crest of Cemetery Ridge, and there 

 the whole picture presented itself as vividly portrayed by 

 Greely and Schley. Below me on the flat stretch was 

 the frozen lake from which the party obtained water, 

 and just beyond, projecting above the snow, were the 

 outlines of the rock hut. At my right, in the lee of a 

 ledge, I could plainly see the ring of rocks which held 

 down the tent of the dying men. 



In 1909 I visited the headquarters of this expedition 

 at Lady Franklin Bay, in 81° 44' N. The house and 



