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ITINERARY-OUTFIT. 
1. From brig to Ten-mile Ravine. 10 miles. 
2. From Ten-mile Ravine to Basalt Camp. 6 u 
8. From Basalt Camp to Helen River. 10 “ 
4. Helen’s River to Devil’s Jaws (off Godsend Island).. 9 “ 
5. Godsend Island to Anoatok and Hummock Pass. 7 “ 
6. Hummock Pass to Refuge Inlet. 7 “ 
7. Refuge Inlet to Cape Hatherton. 8 u 
8. Cape Hatherton to Second Hummock Pass. 12 “ 
9. Across Second Pass to south end of Littleton Island... 8 “ 
10. South end of Littleton Island to Point Salvation. 2 “ 
11. Point Salvation to Esquimaux huts. 12 “ 
Total travel in miles. 91 miles. 
II. Temperature. —Mean, about —45°. Range —40° 
to —60°. 
III. Resources. —Five half-starved dogs; Hans Cris- 
tian, Dr. Kane, a light sledge, and outfit. 
IV. Outfit. —To encounter broken ice in the midst 
of darkness and at a temperature destructive to life, 
every thing depends upon your sledge. Should it 
break down, you might as well break your own leg: 
there is no hope for you. Our sledge then is made of 
well-tried oak, dovetailed into a runner shod with iron. 
No metal is used besides, except the screws and rivets 
wdiich confine the sledge to its runners. In this intense 
cold, iron snaps like glass, and no immovable or rigidly- 
fastened wood-work would stand for a moment the 
fierce concussions of the drive. Every thing is put 
together with lashings of seal-skin, and the whole 
fabric is the skeleton framework of a sledge as flexible 
as a lady’s work-basket, and weighing only forty 
pounds. On this we fasten a sacking-bottom of canvas, 
