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Wrangel Bay Camp, was about 100 yards beyond our 

 igloo, and extended from there, as I judged, northward 

 beyond Cape Rawson, and reached entirely across the 

 channel to the Greenland coast at Cape Brevoort, as 

 in 1900, 



Fortunately, with the exercise of utmost care, and 

 with a few narrow escapes, and incessant hard work, 

 we were able to work our sledges along the narrow and 

 dangerous ice-foot to and around Black Cape. 



The ice-foot along this section of the coast was the 

 same as was found here by Egerton and Rawson in 

 1876, and Pavy in 1882, necessitating the hewing of an 

 almost continuous road; but a party of willing, light- 

 hearted Eskimos makes comparatively easy work of 

 what would be a slow and heart-breaking job for two 

 or three white men. Beyond Black Cape the ice-foot 

 improved in character, and I pushed along to camp at 

 the Alerfs winter quarters. Simultaneously with 

 seeing the Alerts' cairn three musk-oxen were seen a 

 short distance inland, and secured. The animals were 

 very thin and furnished but a scant meal for my 



dogs. 



One march from here carried us to Cape Richardson, 

 and the next under the lee of View Point, where we 

 were stopped and driven to build our igloo with all 

 possible speed by one of the common Arctic gales. 

 There were young ice, pools of water, and a nearly con- 

 tinuous water- sky all along the shore. 



As the last march had been through deep snow, I 

 did not dare to attempt the English short cut across 

 Feilden Peninsula behind Cape Joseph Henry, pre- 

 ferring to take the ice-foot route round it. 



