42 GREELY RELIEF EXPEDITION. 



seen. All well at that time. Reached Cape Hawkes Aug. 36th, took up 168 lbs. 

 potatoes, 111 lbs. pickles, 250 bread, 334 stearine. Left same afternoon and were 

 beset that night in about 73° W., 79° 35 'N. in attempting to reach Victoria Head by 

 dh-ect course. All well Aug. 37, 1883. No signs of a ship or of depots for us have 

 been seen, although the shore has been carefully followed and watched. A N. 

 E. gale forced us down to 79° 00' 06" N., 74° 45' W., when temperature fell Sept, 

 8th to -0,8, freezing in the party. It is the intention to abandon launch Lady Greely 

 and one boat Monday, Sept. 10, and to reach Cape Sabine with two boats by 

 sledge via Cocked Hat Island. Party all well and in good spirits at date. Have 

 about (40) forty days complete rations. It is the intention, as soon as separation shall 

 be safe, to send an officer and two men to Brevoort Island to obtain record, which 

 should be there, of the movements of ship and location of depot this year. If boats 

 have been left there it will greatly facilitate our movements and increase our chances 

 of safety. Abandoned launch and one boat Sept. 10th, and later another boat. 

 Driven into the middle of Kane's Sea twice by S. W. gales; once from about 

 three miles off Cocked Hat Island, and again from about same distance from Sabine; 

 yet later, when within two miles of Brevoort Island, driven by a N. W. gale and 

 ice pressure to north side Baird Inlet, between Leffiert and Alfred Newton glaciers 

 of Admiralty chart or just north of Cape Patterson, Nares map. Reached land Sejit- 

 39th with one boat, 13 man sledges, 35 days ratiors. Party of 35 all well yet 

 and hopeful of future. Lt. Lock wood probably starts for Sabine Oct. 1, and 

 vstII deposit this record. If no rations except English are found they will be hauled 

 away to this point, and Cape Isabella visited by sledge in hope of finding another 

 there; as a forlorn hope, when rations are reduced to ten days, an attempt will be 

 made to reach Littleton Island by sledge, leaving records anjl cairn here with boat; 

 records to be not exceeding 25 feet from boat. Pendulum and duplicate records 

 will be cached at site of English depot by Lt. Lockwood. Hope to obtain game 

 enough to keep us alive until Feb'y. , when wiU start for Littleton Island as soon as 

 sun permits traveUing. 



A. W. GREELY, 

 IstLt. 5 Cav., A. S. O. & Ass't Commanding Expedition. 



Sept. 30th, 1883. 



N. side Baird Inlet. 



Visit Brevoort Island for maps and records in English cairn. Our party winter 

 under desperate circumstances, in imminent danger of- starvation, on N. side Baird 

 Inlet. AU well; twenty-five yet in party. 



A. W. GREELY, 

 1st Lt. 5 Cav. , A. S. O. & Asst. Commanding Expedition. 

 Sept. 30, 1883. 

 N. side Baird Inlet. 



Left Lt. Greely's party at north side Baird Inlet on Oct. 1st. , accompanied by one 

 Eskimo, and arrived at Payer Harbor yesterday, Oct. 5th. Encountered great dif- 

 ficulty in traveUing. Rosse Bay and all its ramifications entirely open and a strait 

 found opening out to the west of Cocked Hat Island and separating Sabine from main- 

 land; had to be followed on inside throughout its entire length. 



Travelled through thick weather yesterday and did not see cache landed from 

 wreck of Proteus and mentioned in Lt. Garlington's notice, but found depot of 240 

 rations marked by tripod all right. Boat damaged as stated. The cache of clothing 

 opposite the place has been scattered by the bears. Two bags of hard bread found 

 with the clothing ; one partly destroyed (also some ****). i shall now endeavor 



