CHAPTER XXXV 



LAST DAYS AT CAPE SHERIDAN 



IT is not long now to the end of the story. On 

 returning to the Roosevelt I learned that 

 MacMillan and the doctor had reached the ship 

 March 21, Borup on April 11, the Eskimo survivors 

 of Marvin's party April 17, and Bartlett on April 24. 

 MacMillan and Borup had started for the Greenland 

 coast, before my return, to deposit caches for me, in 

 the event that I should be obliged by the drifting of 

 the ice to come back that way, as in 1906. (Borup, 

 on his return to the land, had deposited a cache for 

 me at Cape Fanshawe Martin, on the Grant Land 

 coast, some eighty miles west from Cape Columbia, 

 thus providing for a drift in either direction.) 



Borup also, with the aid of the Eskimos, built at 

 Cape Columbia a permanent monument, consisting 

 of a pile of stones formed round the base of a guide- 

 post made of sledge planks, with four arms pointing 

 true north, south, east, and west — the whole sup- 

 ported and guyed by numerous strands of heavy 

 sounding wire. On each arm is a copper plate, with 

 an inscription punched in it. On the eastern arm is, 

 "Cape Morris K. Jesup, May 16, 1900, 275 miles;" on 

 the southern arm is, "Cape Columbia, June 6, 1906;" 

 on the western arm is, "Cape Thomas H. Hubbard, 

 July 1, 1906, 225 miles;" on the northern arm, "North 



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