NEWS AT BUTTER POINT 
biscuits, one bag of pcmmican, and ditto of sugar, raisins, 
tea, and cocoa. The pcmmican and raisins were most 
acceptable, as we had finislicd ours. Priestley collected 
some specimens and we started away again at 4.30, across 
pressure towards Butter Point. At 6 p.m. we camped 
about I mile south of Cape Bernacclii with smooth ice 
ahead. 
We arc certainly having the most lovely weather, 
clear, calm, and cold enough to make marching a pleasure. 
A large number of seals and young up. 
November 2. — 5 a.m. A fine morning. Got away 
early over good snow surface, reaching Butter Point at 
2.30. There was a good deal of pressure off the point, so 
leaving the sledges on the good ice we walked the half- 
mile to the depot. We had been seeing a large number of 
seals and young since Granite Harbour, but just off Butter 
Point the number was extraordinary. 
Getting up to the depot we found an enormous 
quantity of stores, also a note from Atkinson saying he had 
tried to relieve us last April but had found no ice beyond 
this spot. As there was no further message we were 
anxious for the safety of this party, as we know how 
unreliable the autumn ice is. As to what had liappened 
it was hopeless trying to speculate. This had upset all 
our theories and I had a vague feeling something was 
wrong. 
I therefore decided to leave one tin of biscuits here 
and get right across the sound as soon as possible. Taking 
a few luxuries such as chocolate and jam, we went back 
to the sledges and pulled in a south-east direction until 
