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cup of coffee, having made about twelve miles’ course S. 5 E. We 
now lay under the cape bounding the deop bay we crossed yesterday. 
With the exception of Sanderson’s Hope, south of Upernavik, this 
mass of rock is the most majestic I have ever beheld. Its longest face, 
presenting on Smith’s Sound, is at least five miles; and the face pre¬ 
senting N. about three miles without a break. At the point its altitude 
is fifteen hundred feet, measured by sextant-angles with a base-line 
stepped upon the floe. The background is much higher. We this 
day gave our dogs our last scrap of pcmmican. 
3Iay 30. —We got under way at 6 A.M., having deemed it expedient 
to lighten our load as much as possible by leaving behind us our sleep¬ 
ing-bags and every article which could at all be dispensed with; among 
which was a suite of geological specimens which I had taken the trouble 
to collect from the broken cliffs of the bluff reached on the 27th, I re¬ 
tained a pair of seal-skin boots, which I thought might serve as a break¬ 
fast for the dogs, our stockings, the compass, sextant, telescope, rifle, 
and lamp. All else was thrown off, to the amount of about forty pounds. 
My reasons for this sacrifice I have before stated. I knew full well 
the service the sleeping-bags would be to you during your future 
journey; but, as William could no longer walk, I found it impossible 
to drag him and all our cargo on the sledge. In dispensing with those 
articles so valuable to us, I hoped to facilitate our arrival at the vessel, 
and thereby avoid the necessity of killing one of our dogs, thus causing 
a loss which could not be replaced. 
Our travelling for the first few miles to-day was very rough; but the 
farther we receded from the shore we had harder snow and less sludge. 
We rode alternately until we reached the middle of the channel, when 
the dogs could drag us both at the rate of five miles an hour. 
The general trend of the coast from the cape last described is 
W. 27° S. At a mile from the shore five headlands were distinctly 
visible nearly on a line; at five miles farther, another headland ap¬ 
peared ; and at ten miles more, another. Our course was S.S.W., 
(true.) A thick fog soon appeared, and I did not get another sight 
of the shore until noon, when a meridian-altitude gave me lat. 79° 6'. 
I obtained good bearings to the cape where I left the land-ice, and the 
intermediate points between it and Cape Sabine to the south. These, 
together with observations previously made, enable me to chart the 
coast-line from Cape Sabine to thirty miles north of the farthest point 
reached by me. This material, together with the chart projected 
therefrom, is now in your possession. 
(Track-Chart accompanies .) 
