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worn: — 40 when we pitched camp. Early in the 
morning of the rst August we killed two seals. Still 
nothing was seen of the party which was to assist 
us, and I anticipated rightly that they had been 
compelled to return to Camp Ridley by the violent 
gale which had nearly made an end of my two faithful 
companions and myself. I called the new camp Mid- 
winter Camp, and the island I named, after H.R.H. 
the Duke of York, Duke of York Island. The island 
is situated in lat. 71° 35' Si, long. 170-24 BE On he 
2nd August I resolved to investipate some of the 
coast line of this island; I took with me the Finn 
Must, leaving Savio in camp to construct a kind of 
Finn tent out of provision bags, seal-skins, and bags 
which he proposed stretching over our sledges, pitched 
on end; as we would then be enabled to utilize some 
of the seal blubber as fuel The Finn Must and 
myself proceeded along the northern shore of Duke 
of York Island, and reached a bay which I named 
Crescent Bay. During the succeeding days I managed 
to make as thorough an investigation of the immediate 
surroundings of our camp as the cold weather per- 
mitted. As I began to get anxious about the party 
which was to have followed us, I took in stores of 
seal-beef and blubber. We suffered a good deal 
from frost-bites, although we managed to keep up a 
blubber fire in the conical tent, if it so may be called, 
constructed by Savio in the manner described above. 
It was not a question of being warm in the sleeping- 
bags then, but of being less cold. 
I found that the Lapps' method of never using 
socks in their Finn boots answered well Socks are 
never used in Finnarken in winter time, but “senne 
