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obtain no water anywhere on the lowlands. The pools 

 of water on the surface of the ice are now frozen over 

 thick enough to bear our weights in most places 

 During an excursion to-day we caught several butter- 

 flies and caterpillars, also some bluebottle flies.' 



About one hundred yards from the shore of Dis- 

 covery Bay Dr. Moss picked up part of a human femur. 

 This was the only portion of a human skeleton found 

 northward of Port Foulke. 



While swinging the ' Alert ' to ascertain the error 



POST OFFICE CAIRN. 



of the compasses, her stern took the ground with the 

 falling of the tide. She floated again without damage 

 as the tide rose. 



On the 18th Captain Stephenson deposited an 

 account of our proceedings in a cairn which had been 



