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VOYAGE TO THE POLAR SEA. 



AriuL 



4 20th. — Temperature, minus 8°, light snow falling 

 with a breeze from the northward sufficiently strong 

 to collect it in the sheltered places and so cause very 

 heavy travelling. After a four days' rest, which has 

 enabled his crews to recover from their first experience 

 of Arctic travelling, Lieutenants Beaumont and Baw- 

 son, and Doctor Coppinger, with twenty-one men 

 dragging four sledges weighted to 218 lbs. a man, 



«S^-«» mi m -»i^ 



CAPE RAWSON SNOW-SLOPE. 



started at 7 p.m. for the north coast of Greenland ; pick- 

 ing up their provisions at Cape Eawson, whither they 

 had been carried by sledge crews of the " Alert " while 

 exercising preparatory to starting on their journeys. 



1 22nd. — Bawson returned unexpectedly from Lieu- 

 tenant Beaumont's party for a new five-man sledge, 

 one having hopelessly broken down while crossing the 

 barrier hummocks, although a roadway had been made 



