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aggregate in area more than a few acres so that we always spoke 

 of them as snowdrifts. Two or three had streams of water run- 

 ning through a vault underneath, but most were bisected by rivers 

 that had cut them to the bottom leaving a remnant of snow or 

 granular ice on either side of the ravine. 



A mile or two back of camp was a hill three or four hundred 

 feet high which we had used during fine weather as a lookout for 

 any lands farther off than the ordinarily visible northwest tip of 

 Bathurst Island. 



On leaving our summer camp we built a sort of cairn of mud 

 and tin cans on a knoll about a hundred yards away. In it is a 

 note in a tabloid tea box protected by an inverted lard pail. The 

 note refers to our record on Lookout Hill. The Lookout Hill record 

 is in a beacon which is a conical earth heap about three feet high 

 with a ten-pound malted milk tin on top. In a small round tin 

 inside this larger tin is the record, while the big can is otherwise 

 nearly filled with stones to make it more stable. 



"Approximate Latitude 77° 09' 30" N., 

 Approximate Longitude 0° 32' E. of Cape Isachsen, 



September 3, 1916. 

 "The below members of the Canadian Arctic Expedition have spent 

 here the interval from August 9th to September 3rd, waiting for snow 

 and ice to continue sled exploratory work. A support party commanded 

 by Aarnout Castel and consisting, besides him, of the Eskimos Nat- 

 kusiak and Emiu, left us at Cape Isachsen June 3rd to find, if one ex- 

 isted, a sea passage between Findlay Island and the land discovered 

 (Borden Island). They were to proceed then to join Storkerson's party 

 who are putting up meat in Melville Island, and Natkusiak with a party 

 was to return thence to Cape Murray to put up meat near N. Lat. 78° 

 and W. Long. 117° for ice exploration in 1917. We followed shore floe 

 northeastward and found new land June 13 near N. Lat. 79° 45', Merid- 

 ian Distance, east of Cape Isachsen about 4° 15'. Went around this 

 island from the southwest corner, past the north end to the southeast 

 corner. Found north end about 80° 10' N., about 4° 43' east of Isachsen. 

 Left southeast corner that land 28th, landed on Amund Ringnes Island, 

 Hassel Sound, July 3rd, N. Lat, 78° 44', M,apped east coast of sound to 

 about 78° 08'. Crossed sound (about 15 miles wide) and mapped west 

 coast sound southward. Stopped for thirty hours' tidal observations 

 July 18-19 near N. Lat. 78° 04'. Some thirteen miles south of here we 

 found a cairn and record of the MacMillan Expedition written by Mac- 

 Millan April 23, 1916. He was then on his way from King Christian 

 Island to North Cornwall by way of Cape Ludvig. He reports his party 

 all well. Proceeded from here to King Christian Island. Found its 

 most southerly point to be about N, Lat. 77° 41', about 3° 33' east of 



