GLACIAL FRINGE OF GRANT LAND 177 



My new tent was only partially dry from its recent 

 waterproofing, and was still sticky and ill smelling, and 

 soiled hands and clothing, and everything that came 

 in contact with it. I was stiff, sore, short of wind and 

 my feet and legs swollen. Altogether it was rather a 

 disagreeable "first night." 



Koodlooktoo returned about 3 o'clock in the morning 

 and we got away soon after. During our stay at this 

 camp it was cloudy and foggy but this gradually cleared 

 away as we marched and the sun got higher. Near 

 Cape Creswell we met the Captain and I took one of 

 his men and his best dogs. 



He told me he was intending to go back out on the 

 trail again, if he had not received my lett-er. After 

 a short stop, he continued on to the ship, and I kept 

 on my way for six and one-half hours through soft 

 snow, one foot to two feet thick, to the ice-foot west 

 of View Point. I intentionally made this a short 

 march in order to get round to night marches. A 

 brilliant day and evening. 



We left this camp soon after midnight and reached 

 Cape Hecla in six and one-half hours across Fielden 

 Peninsula. The snow was hard at first, then very 

 deep. A brilliant night. This made seventeen and one- 

 half marching hours from Cape Sheridan to Cape 

 Hecla. 



I quote from my Journal: 



Point Moss, June $th. — What with overhauling the 

 sounding apparatus, seeing that Marvin's outfit and 

 supplies w^re complete, writing his instructions, select- 

 ing the things to go back to the ship from the cache at 



