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but we were forced back each time to our 

 precarious shelter. 



Finally on September 1 1 we squeezed 

 around Cape Union and made fast in a 

 shallow niche in the ice, but after some 

 hours we made another short run to 

 Black Cape, and hung on to a grounded 

 bit of ice. At last, a little after midnight 

 of September 5, we passed through ex- 

 tremely heavy running ice into a stream 

 of open water, rounded Cape Union, and 

 passed Cape Sheridan. 



Within a quarter of an hour of the 

 same time we arrived three years before, 

 7 a. m., September 5, we reached the 

 open water extending beyond Cape Sher- 

 idan. We steamed up to the end of it, 

 and it appeared practicable at first to 

 reach Porter Bay, near Cape Joseph 

 Henry, which I had for my winter quar- 

 ters. But the outlook being unsatisfac- 

 tory, I went back and put the Roosevelt 

 into the only opening in the floe, being 

 barred close to the mouth of the Sheri- 

 dan River, a little north of our position 

 three years ago. 



The season was further advanced than 

 in 1905, there was more snow on the 

 ground, and the new ice inside the floe 

 bergs was much thicker. 



The work of discharging the ship was 

 commenced at once, and rushed to com- 

 pletion. The supplies and equipment we 

 sledded across ice and sea and deposited 

 on shore. A house and workshop were 

 built of board, covered with sails, and 

 fitted with stoves, and the ship was snug 

 for winter in shoal water, where she 

 touched bottom at low tide. This settle- 

 ment on the stormy shores of the Arctic 

 Ocean was christened Hubbardville. 



A hunting party was sent out on Sep- 

 tember 10, and a bear was brought in on 

 the 1 2th, and some deer a day or two 

 later. 



On September 15 the full work of 

 transporting supplies to Cape Columbia 

 was commenced. Marvin, with Doctor 

 Goodsell and Borup and the Eskimo, 

 took sixteen sledges of supplies tp Cape 

 Belknap, and on the 25th the same party 

 started with loads to Porter Bay. The 

 work of hunting and transporting sup- 



plies was prosecuted continuously by the 

 members of the party and the Eskimos 

 until November 5, when the supplies for 

 the spring sledge trip had been removed 

 from winter quarters and deposited at 

 various places from Cape Colan to Cape 

 Columbia. 



In the latter part of September the 

 movement of the ice subjected the ship- 

 to a pressure which listed her to port 

 some 8 or 10 degrees, and she did not 

 recover till the following spring. 



On October 1 I went on a hunt with 

 two Eskimos across the ice field and Parr 

 Bay and the peninsula, made the circuit 

 of Clements Markham Inlet, and re- 

 turned to the ship in seven days with fif- 

 teen musk oxen, a bear, and a deer. 

 Later in October I repeated the trip, ob- 

 taining five musk oxen, and hunting par- 

 ties secured some forty deer. 



Professor McMillan went to Colum- 

 bia in November and obtained a month of 

 tidal observations, reiurning in Decem- 

 ber. In the December moon Borup 

 moved the Hecla depot to Cape Colan; 

 Bartlett made a hunting trip overland to- 

 Lake Hazem and Hensen went to Clem- 

 ents Markham Inlet. In the January 

 moon Marvin crossed Robeson Channel 

 and went to Cape Bryant for tidal 

 and meteorological observations. Bart- 

 lett crossed the channel and made the cir- 

 cuit of Newman Bay and explored the 

 peninsula. After he returned Goodsell 

 went to Markham Inlet and Borup 

 toward Lake Hazen, in the interior, on 

 hunting trips. 



In the February moon Bartlett went 

 to Cape Hecla, Goodsell moved some 

 more supplies from Hecla to Cape Colan, 

 and Borup went to Markham Inlet on a 

 hunting trip. On February 15 Bartlett 

 left the Roosevelt with his division for 

 Cape Columbia and Parr Bay ; Goodsell, 

 Borup, McMillan, and Hensen followed 

 on successive days with their provisions. 

 Marvin returned from Cape Bryant on 

 February 17, and left for Cape Columbia 

 February 21. I brought up in the rear 

 February 22. 



The total of all divisions leaving the 

 Roosevelt were 7 members of the party, 



