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Noice unrolled the skin and thought he would make himself useful 

 by separating the bones from the hide. It then occurred to him 

 that he would try and see if raw marrow was really good and so 

 he broke the bones for the marrow. I had taken so much pains 

 with getting this specimen home in good condition that when I woke 

 it was some time before I could see the amusing side of the incident 

 and console myself for the ruining of my zoological specimen with 

 the reflection that Noice had overcome the last of his food preju- 

 dices. 



A few days later I took another specimen in the same careful 

 way. This time it was safe from Noice and indeed he and all of 

 us looked after it carefully for some months. But eventually 

 somebody was forgetful and one night the dogs ate it up. Edible 

 specimens are difficult to carry home when the journey involves 

 several months. 



On Lougheed Island at the main summer camp we took tide 

 observations every ten minutes for a period of thirty hours. This 

 completed a series of tide observations scattered at strategic points 

 remote from places where observations of tides had previously been 

 taken. They have some value but, of course, not as great as if 

 the series could have been thirty days instead of thirty hours in 

 each place. 



Castel had been directed to make a depot on the south shore of 

 Borden Island or on the south shore of Findlay Island. When I 

 gave those directions I had in mind the big Findlay Island or 

 King Christian Island of the maps and was even of the opinion that 

 this big land might be one with Borden Island. We could see now 

 that it must have been difficult for Castel to decide how to follow 

 these instructions when all the topography was so different from 

 what we had expected. Still we looked minutely for traces of the 

 depot or a message on the shores of Lougheed Island. When we 

 found none we began to fear that we might have overlooked a de- 

 pot on the south shore of (the present) Findlay Island. 



Towards the end of August it began to snow occasionally and 

 on the third of September, after getting a last excellent set of time 

 observations, we started the autumn sledge travel. The shore 

 lead was not yet frozen, so we had to go overland. The only dif- 

 ficulty was to find the way across a few precipitous ravines. Some 

 of these ravines, especially if they faced north, had snowdrifts in 

 them which had lasted through the summer and which probably last 

 through most or all summers. In a sense these are therefore gla- 

 ciers, but none of them can be seen from a distance and none 



