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the following morning, all our meals have been cooked 

 with drift-wood. Chipp carries a gallon of alcohol with 

 him, but he will of course avail himself of any drift- 

 wood. Dunbar depends entirely on wood, because he 

 will not leave the land- ice. 



Weather at noon still overcast and foggy, but I am 

 in hopes of a clearing. I must get a longitude before 

 leaving. Thursday, the 4th of August, is the day I ap- 

 point for our start toward the Siberian Islands. Calm. 

 Temperature 29°. Sent out a party after dinner to 

 bring in the fire-wood which Ericksen and Kaack piled 

 up yesterday. The men sent out to bring back the 

 wood report that Chipp had just started afloat with the 

 second cutter. Newcomb came back at eight p. m. 

 with quite a collection. 



August 2d, Tuesday. — Called all hands at six ; 

 breakfasted at seven ; pemmican, etc. After breakfast 

 sent out some bird-catchers. At ten A. m. Mr. Dunbar 

 returned. From his report, verbally made, he has been 

 about fourteen miles along the south face. He brought 

 back some mosses, stones, and drift-wood, and an old 

 bone which may have been that of a musk ox (?) or of 

 a walrus. No game of any kind was seen, but traces 

 of bears, foxes, Arctic hares (?), and grouse (?) were 

 found ; bear-tracks and a bear's winter house, divided 

 into outer and inner apartments at right angles, Arctic 

 hare (?) wool, grouse droppings. The extinct volcano, 

 which we saw to our right before landing, and which 

 I supposed to be at the shore, was three quarters of a 

 mile back and about four and a half miles from our 

 encampment. He saw two glaciers, and thinks they 

 unite at the top. The further and larger was three 

 miles across its face, and its edge was from fifty to 

 sixty feet in height. This is the glacier abreast of 



