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or possibly Pierce Point, and there are no harbors beyond that nearer 

 than Bernard Harbor. As we did not have much to bring back to 

 Bernard Harbor, and nothing that was absolutely necessary, the ad- 

 vantage in getting back there with the Alaska did not seem commen- 

 surate with the risk involved to the vessel, so I decided to put the boat 

 into winter quarters at the Baillie Islands. 



On November 20, 1914, I started from the Alaska at Cape Bathurst 

 for the winter base of the Southern party on Dolphin and Union Strait, 

 an approximate distance of about 400 miles,* accompanied by Castel, 

 Sullivan and the Eskimo, Ikey Bolt, taking one Nome sled and seven 

 dogs. We followed the west side of Franklin Bay 90 miles to Langton 

 Bay and crossed the Pa.rry peninsula to Darnley Bay where we passed 

 the house of Captain Christian Klengenberg,** an ex-whaler with his 

 family, and another house belonging to an Eskimo family. Klengen- 

 berg's young son and daughter had a temporary trapping camp a little 

 east of Cape Lyon, and east of that there were no inhabitants west of 

 Dolphin and Union Strait. East of Baillie Island there are no per- 

 manent residents, and the western Eskimos make only casual excur- 

 sions into the territory. 



The Star had made a cache of provisions and coal oil at Pierce 

 Point in the fall, and we took some supplies from it on this trip. 

 We found enough driftwood for fuel at every campsite along the coast. 

 On December 10, behind Keat's Point, we met Chipman and O'Neill 

 with a sled. They had left Bernard Harbor November 19, to make a 

 preliminary topographical and geological reconnaissance as far west 

 as Pierce Point, in preparation for the coming spring's work, as well 

 as to look for the whereabouts of the Alaska. They turned around 

 and accompanied us eastward. We found open water near shore 

 all along from Cape Lyon to Clifton Point. At Deas Thompson Point 

 the ice had recently broken away from the cliffs and we had to make 

 a detour over the hills. We reached the winter quarters of the main 

 party about noon, December 25. The temperature in general was 

 warmer than usual at that season, not going below zero Fahrenheit at 

 any time of observation during the first two weeks of December, 1914, 

 and on occasion rising to 25° above zero Fahrenheit. The freeze-up 

 in 1914 occurred at Cape Bathurst about September 30, and at Ber- 

 nard Harbor about October 16. 



Everything was in good shape at Bernard Harbor. A frame house 

 had been built, covered partially with boards and partially with canvas, 

 and the whole sodded over. Enough small driftwood had been picked 

 up in autumn to last fo.r fuel until Christmas, and more was hauled 



*For an account of the first sledge journey ever made by white men along 

 the coast from Franklin Bay to Coronation Gulf, see "My Life With the 

 Eskimo," pp. 159 ff. 



** See references to Captain Klinkenberg in index of "My Life With the 

 Eskimo." [Notes by V. Stefansson.l 



