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on Borden Island. Our survey program is about as set down in 

 the record on the next page. My ankle continues to give trouble 

 but this is not one of the main reasons for turning back. . . . This 

 seems as good a game district as we are used to and the question 

 of provisions and fuel does not enter into the matter of our turn- 

 ing back." 



In a beacon near the north tip of Meighen Island we left the 

 following record: 



"June 23, 1916, 



"North Latitude 80° 7' 



"Meridian distance 4° 43' east of Cape Isachsen. 

 "We are leaving here to-day. We intend to survey the east side of 

 this land, proceed south perhaps through Hassel Sound or east of Amund 

 Ringnes Island, determine if Findlay Island is part of the land dis- 

 covered by us in 1915, and survey the south coast or coasts between Find- 

 lay Island and Cape Murray. We then intend to pass the remainder of 

 the summer in the land discovered in 1915. If food conditions are favor- 

 able we shall probably winter near Cape Murray to prepare a base for 

 the exploratory work of the Expedition to the north and west of that 

 point in 1917. 



WITNESS : "For the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 



Karsten Andersen, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 



Harold Noice. Commander." 



Between June 17th and 28th we were able to traverse the entire 

 west, north and east coasts of the island, making a reasonably 

 accurate survey for the worst of the fog season was over. On June 

 28th we struck directly south from the most southeasterly corner 

 of our land, intending to pass east or west of Amund Ringnes 

 Island according to where we should strike it, for we had concluded 

 we could count on no certain correspondence between the longi- 

 tudes as obtained by us and the lands as laid down on the chart. 

 On June 30th Amund Ringnes Island came in sight in such a posi- 

 tion that it was clear we had Hassel Sound about directly south 

 and would pass between the two Ringnes Islands. 



