APPENDIX 703 



After securing this I was able to get the average rate of my chronom- 

 eter for eight months. This place was my point of departure and is 

 one of the two or three best determined positions on the northern coast 

 of the American continent. The celebrated explorer, Ernest deKoven 

 Leffingwell, had his headquarters there for several years. 



I then proceeded east to Demarcation Point and to Herschel Island 

 where I spent the winter. In the spring of 1919 I proceeded up the 

 Mackenzie River by whale boat with Inspector Phillips of the Royal 

 Northwest Mounted Police to Fort Macpherson and there engaged pas- 

 sage on the Hudson's Bay Company's steamer to Fort McMurray, 

 where I received orders from Ottawa to report to my Commander, 

 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, at Banff, Alberta. 



And so ended the fifth and last exploring trip of the Canadian Arctic 

 Expedition. 



