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When I returned to the Windward she was round 

 in the eastern side of Frankhn Pierce Bay. A party- 

 had left two days before with dogs, sledge and boat, 

 in an attempt to meet me and supply provisions. 

 Three days were occupied in communicating with them 

 and getting them and their outfit on board. The 

 Windward then moved back to her winter berth at 

 Cape D'Urville, took the dogs on board, and on the 

 morning of Wednesday, August 2d, got under way. 



During the next five days we advanced some twelve 

 miles, when a southerly wind jammed the ice and 

 drifted us north, abreast of the starting point. Early 

 Tuesday morning, the 8th. we got another start, and 

 the ice gradually slackening, we kept under way, 

 reached open water a little south of Cape Albert, and 

 arrived at Cape Sabine at 10 p. m. 



At Cape Sabine I landed a cache and then steamed 

 over to Etah, arriving at 5 a. m. of the 9th. Here we 

 found mail and learned that the Diana, which the Club 

 had sent up to communicate with me, was out after 

 walrus. August 12th the Diana returned, and I had 

 the great pleasure of taking Secretary Bridgman, com- 

 manding the Club's Expedition, by the hand. 



The year had been one of hard and continuous work 

 for the entire party. In that time I obtained the 

 material for an authentic map of the Buchanan-Bay- 

 Bache- Peninsula-Princess-Marie-Bay region; crossed 

 the EUesmere Land ice-cap to the west side of that 

 land, established a continuous line of caches from 

 Cape Sabine to Fort Conger, containing some fourteen 

 tons of supplies; rescued the original records and 

 private papers of the Greely Expedition; fitted Fort 



