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I hoped to reach Cape Louis Napoleon on this march, 

 but the going was too heavy, and I was obhged to 

 camp in Dobbin Bay, about five miles short of the cape. 

 The next day I hoped on starting to reach Cape Eraser, 

 but was again disappointed, a severe windstorm com- 

 pelling me to halt a little south of Hayes Point, and 

 hurriedly build snow igloos in the midst of a blinding 

 drift. All that night and the next day, and the next 

 night, the storm continued. An early start was made 

 on the 1 6th, and in calm but very thick weather, we 

 pushed on to Cape Eraser. Here we encountered the 

 wind and drift full in our faces, and violent, making 

 our progress from here to Cape Norton Shaw along 

 the ice-foot very trying. 



The going from here across Scoresby and Richardson 

 bays was not worse than the year before; and from 

 Cape Wilkes to Cape Lawrence the same as we had 

 always found it. These two marches were made in 

 clear but bitterly windy weather. 



Another severe southerly gale held us prisoners at 

 Cape Lawrence for a day. The 20th was an equally 

 cruel day, with wind still savage in its strength, but the 

 question of food for my dogs gave me no choice but 

 to try to advance. At the end of four hours we were 

 forced to burrow into a snow-bank for shelter, where 

 we remained till the next morning. 



In three more marches we reached Cape Leopold 

 von Buch, Two more days of good weather brought 

 us to a point a few miles north of Cape Defosse. 

 Here we were stopped by another furious gale with 

 driftmg snow, which prisoned us for two nights and 

 a day. 



