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to give him four or five more days. It was blowing hard from the 

 south, and I knew that when the wind dropped there would be open 

 water outside the ridge, with plenty of seals. But I was beginning 

 to worry about the native, so I set out on the fourteenth day. I got 

 to the beach at seven A. M. and found everybody asleep. It seemed the 

 native had loaded up with wood as he had said he would and had 

 started for my camp when he got severely snowblind five or six miles 

 from land and was unable to proceed. After being sick there for some 

 time he had returned ashore. Shortly after this McKinlay left for his 

 camp at Eodgers Harbor, where he was to stay according to the Captain's 

 orders. He was gone several days and came back with the news that 

 Malloch had died and that Mamen was sick and swelling up, which 

 most of them were doing at our camp, too. He said Mamen could not 

 eat the Underwood pemmican and had asked him to go to Skeleton 

 Island, some twenty or thirty miles from our camp, to get him a tin 

 of Hudson's Bay pemmican. McKinlay had tried to do this and had 

 got lost to the extent of not finding Skeleton Island, whereupon he had 

 continued along the land until he came to our camp. He was snowblind 

 and played out, so he got the Chief and one of the firemen to return to 

 Rodgers Harbor to look after Mamen, as Templeman (the steward) 

 was unable to do it. 



From now on the seals began to come out of their holes to sun them- 

 selves on the ice and the native and I occasionally got one, which was 

 a change from the pemmican. Birds would fly over us in flocks but 

 we rarely got one of them on the wing with our rifles. It was then 

 we felt not having the shotgun. 



The second of June McKinlay, the Eskimo family and I left for 

 Cape Waring where I knew of a crowbill rookery. McKinlay was to 

 take back the sleds and team of three dogs to fetch the rest, who were 

 all sick. Before we arrived at Cape Waring we were met by the Chief 

 and the firemen from Rodgers Harbor with the news that when they 

 arrived Mamen had been dead and the steward nearly out of his head 

 with the two dead men beside him in the tent. They had come back 

 to get their effects and return to the harbor. 



Thus far we have kept to Hadley's account except for the matter en- 

 closed in brackets. It is verbatim except where it has been necessary 

 to draw together in one place for the sake of clearness information 

 scattered over several paragraphs. A few sentences have been supplied 

 for full clearness, but only according to Hadley's verbal statements 

 to me. 



It is now necessary to summarize what he says in various parts of 

 his report and what he told verbally to bring out the cause of death 

 of the men, for he does not express himself to make the meaning clear 

 to any except those of us who are familiar with the circumstances. 



The trouble appears to have been largely with the pemmican. We 



