THE SUMMER EXPEDITION TO THE ICE-CAP 



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 which Gould and Belknap had discovered in ad- 

 vance of us. On the thirty-first we made camp 

 on one of these which I named Lake Offield, and 

 Gould and I in the empty canoe set off up the lake 

 to pioneer, for we understood Abraham to say 

 that the course ahead was *'no good" for a canoe. 

 We found conditions excellent and were still able 

 to use the canoe to great advantage for a consider- 

 able distance. In all the canoe was portaged a 

 distance of sixteen miles on the double journey, 

 and it saved us the transport of nearly five hundred 

 pounds for a distance of about seventy-five miles. 



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