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and moored with ice anchors to the harhoT ice that had not yet 

 broken up. 



Lieutenant E. H. Taunt with three seamen, George Yewell, Joseph 

 Mitre, and Hugh Brock were sent to examine the cairn on Brevoort 

 Island; Ensign C. H. Harlow with two seamen, J. W. Powers, and 

 John Manin, to examine Stalknecht Island cache; Lieutenant J. C. 

 Colwell, Ice Masters J. W. Norman, F. Ash, and Chief Engineer 

 John Lowe were detailed to visit, in the Bear's steam cutter, the 

 Wreck Camp cache west of Cape Sahine; Chief Engineer G. W. Mel- 

 ville, Dr. H. E. Ames, and Ensign Reynolds, with seaman John 

 Lindquist, to examine the coast line at bottom of Payer Harbor. 

 These parties were started simultaneously in order to cover the entire 

 ground in the shortest practicable time, that no opportunity be lost 

 to push rapidly towards Cape Hawkes, if no advice should be received 

 of Greely at any of these cairns or caches. 



About 8 p. m. cheers were heard above the roaring winds, but 

 could not be located accurately; again, a second time, cheers were 

 heard more distinctly. A few minutes later, however. Seaman Yew- 

 ell came to me, almost out of breath, with the information that Lieu- 

 tenant Greely and his party were at Cape Sabine. He handed me 

 several records which Lieutenant Taunt had discovered in the cairn 

 on Brevoort Island. These records were carefully read. They were 

 found to refer to dates eight and nine months previous to my arrival, 

 and in them the location of Lieutenant Greely's camp was described. 

 The records are as follows ; 



The International Polar Expedition was fitted out by the War Department of the 

 United States, under the supervision of Gen'l W. B. Hazen, Chief Signal Officer. 



Sailing from St. John's, Newfoundland, July 9th, 1881, it touched at Disco, Eiten- 

 benk, Upernavik, Carey Islands, Littleton Island, Cape Hawkes, Carl Eitter Bay, 

 and was stopped by ice for the fli'st time in Lady Fi'anklin Bay, near Cape Lieber. 

 It landed in Discovery Harbor, August ISth. The steamship Proteus sailed August 

 26th. 



The winter of 1881-2 proved to be of remarkable severity ; the corrected mean for 

 February of a thermometer on the floe was -48. 03. Musk-ox meat was procured 

 in large quantities and other game to Jess extent. Lieutenant Lockwood during the 

 autumn explored the " Bellows ' and the valley of St. Patrick's Bay and attempted 

 in November, twenty-one days after the sun left us, to cross Robeson Channel, but 

 was obliged by open water and heavy ice to turn back several miles from Cape 

 Beechy. 



Starting eleven days before the sun returned he examined Robeson Channel off 

 Cape Beechy, and leaving March 1st, visiting Thank God Harbor via Capes Beechy 

 and Lupton, returned via Newman Bay and Cape Sumner March 11th, having been 

 detained two days by violent storm. 



Dr. Pavy visited Lincoln Bay in September, established depots in Wrangell Bay in 

 October and near Mt. Parry in November, returning on the 8tli, and between 

 March 5th and 9th, 1883, established a depot near Cape Sumner. On October 2nd 

 he started to visit Cape Joseph Henry, but was turned back by open water at the 

 Black Cliffs. He leaves March 18th, 1882, to reach land, if possible, north of Cape 

 Joseph Henry. Lieut. Lockwood leaves April 1st to exploi'e the land north and east 



