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Payer Harbour and rounded Cape Sabine for the north- 

 em journey, and at noon I followed them, with my big 

 sledge, the " Long Serpent," drawn by ten fine grays. 

 Two more sledges accompanied me. The temperature 

 at the time was -20° F. The minimum of the previous 

 night had been -38° F. We joined the others at the 

 igloos abreast of Cape Albert and camped there for the 

 night. Temperature -43° F. The next day we made 

 Cape D'Urville in temperature from -45° to -49° F. 



Here I stopped a day to dry our foot gear thor- 

 oughly, and left on the morning of the 9th with some 

 supplies from the box house. Two sledges returned 

 from here. Camped about five miles from Cape Louis 

 Napoleon. The next march carried me to Cape Eraser, 

 and the next to Cape Collinson. During this march, 

 for the first time in the four seasons that I have been 

 over this route, I was able to take a nearly direct 

 course across the mouth of Scoresby Bay, instead of 

 making a long detour into it. 



One march from Cape Collinson carried me to Cape 

 Lawrence, on the north side of Rawlings Bay. The 

 crossing of this bay, though more direct than usual, 

 was over extremely rough ice. Learning from Henson's 

 letter at Cape Lawrence, that I had gained a day on 

 him, and not wanting to overtake him before reach- 

 ing Conger, I remained here a day, repairing several 

 sledges which had been damaged in the last march. 

 Five men with the worst sledges and poorest dogs 

 returned from here. Three more marches took us to 

 Cape L. von Buch on the north side of Carl Ritter Bay, 

 temperature ranging from -35° to -45° F. Heavy 

 going in many places. 



