1 86 NEAREST THE POLE 



Up to this time, I had not encroached upon the store 

 of pemmican with which I left Point Moss, the captain's 

 small cache of four cans just making the one feed which 

 I gave the dogs off Challenger Point, and the rest of 

 their feeds having been from the Columbia musk-ox. 

 When we turned out at Cape Alexandra we had rabbit 

 stew for breakfast. 



From Cape Alexandra we went on in eight and one- 

 quarter hours, to McClintock Bay, the going heavy 

 through the recently fallen snow, and everyone wearing 

 snowshoes as usual. We attempted to cut across 

 over the foreshore from Cape Alexandra to Cape Dis- 

 covery, but found the grade too heavy, and the snow 

 still deeper; and as I did not feel like breaking the 

 trail ahead on snowshoes, we descended again, and 

 went round it. We camped about in the middle of 

 McClintock Bay, which looked very little as it appears 

 on the chart. The eastern arm is a large deep inlet, 

 running in about west to south (magnetic), and the 

 middle western arm bends more to the west than shown. 



Cape Discovery is a bold mass, with a small glacier 

 between the two arms of the bay, and there is appar- 

 ently a large glacier ahead, for the point of which we 

 are travelling. This entire bay with its ramifica- 

 tions is a black-walled indentation, its shores nearly 

 continuous cliffs, except at the head of the middle arm, 

 and apparently at the head of the eastern arm. 



Any party traversing this coast and having the time, 

 would do well to examine these two places, and if in 

 need of meat should certainly do so as they will be 

 likely to find musk-ox there. The night while we 

 marched was raw, a fresh easterly wind blowing, and 



