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TIIACKERAY HEADLAND. 
This ice was new, and far from safe: its margin along 
the open water made by Minturn River required both 
care and tact in passing over it. We left the heavy 
theodolite behind us; and, indeed, carried nothing ex¬ 
cept a pocket-sextant, my Fraunhofer, a walking-pole, 
and three days’ allowance of raw pemmican. 
We reached the headland after sixteen miles of 
THACKERAY HEADLAND. 
walk, and found the ice-foot in good condition, evi¬ 
dently better fitted for sledge-travel than it was to the 
south. This point I named Cape William Makepeace 
Thackeray. Our party knew it as Chimney Rock. It 
was the last station on the coast of Greenland, de¬ 
termined by intersecting bearings of theodolite, fi'om 
known positions to the south. About eight miles be- 
