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so picking up our ski and a few things we had left there, 
we returned to camp. The temperature remains -15° F. 
A lovely morning with the temperature -21° F. ; we 
were on the march by 8.30 over a fairly good surface. 
In the afternoon we got into deep snow again and had 
to put on ski ; we had fitted each ski with a detachable 
strip of sealskin which made pulling on them much easier. 
We camped that night 4 miles south of Cape Wood, after 
picking up our 12-ft. sledge and depot at Birthday Point. 
Temperature - 28° F. 
October 6. — The morning was overcast but warmer, 
the temperature being - 3° F. To-day we reached a little 
bay north of Cape Barrow. 
After supper we heard an extraordinary noise like a 
ship's siren, which I suppose must have been a seal, but 
none of us had heard anything like it before. During the 
night we were awakened by an avalanche falling near 
us, but we were not near enough to the cliff to be in 
danger, 
October 7. — We made a depot in Siren Bay, leaving one 
sledge and taking on the 12-ft. sledge and four weeks' 
provisions. We had an early lunch and started. By 
keeping some way from the coast we got into fairly good 
surface, but I noticed round some of the pressure ridges 
pools of very new ice, while some large areas of flat ice 
appeared to have been recently flooded, the ice being dark 
and slushy. 
We camped at 6.30, having done five miles since noon. 
In clearing away the snow for the tent we found the ice 
brownish in colour and quite salt. While we were turning 
