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next day I returned to the Windward to refit and start 

 for Buchanan Bay via Victoria Head and Cape Albert 

 in the quest of walrus and musk-oxen. Henson, in a 

 reconnoissance northward during my absence, had 

 been unable to get more than a few miles beyond 

 Cape Louis Napoleon, the sea ice and the ice-foot 

 being alike impracticable. A day or two after my 

 return I started him off to try it again. 



September 30th, I started for Buchanan Bay. Be- 

 tween Victoria Head and Cape Albert I found fresh 

 tracks of a herd of musk-oxen, and followed them until 

 obliterated by the wind. The walrus grounds in Buch- 

 anan Bay were reached late on October 4th, and the 

 next day I secured a walrus and the remainder of my 

 party arrived. The following day everyone was out 

 after musk-oxen; but, finding it very foggy on the up- 

 lands of the peninsula, I returned to camp and went 

 up Buchanan Bay in search of bears. While I was 

 away one of my hunters killed a bull musk-ox. 



On the 7 th I sent two men to bring in the meat and 

 skin, while I went up Buchanan Bay again. Return- 

 ing to camp, I found it deserted. A little later some 

 of the party returned, reporting a herd of fifteen musk- 

 oxen killed. The next two days were consumed in 

 cutting up the animals, stacking the meat and getting 

 the skins and some of the meat out to camp. 



October loth, we started for the ship, which was 

 reached late on the 12th. The ice in Buchanan Bay 

 was very rough, and a snowstorm on the nth made 

 going very heavy. Five days later, October 17th, I 

 went with two men to locate a direct trail for getting 

 the meat out to the north side of the peninsula, but 



