lm THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
away early to go to Mamen’s third camp but he 
did not get off until ten o’clock; with him were 
Chafe, Williams, Maurer and Breddy. The party 
returned about six and reported that they did not 
reach the third camp but found good going and 
believed the going good beyond; between Ship- 
wreck Camp and Mamen’s first camp the ice was 
shifting a little. They said that they could see 
our bonfire four miles away over the ice. I was 
getting anxious about Mamen, for I had surely 
looked to see him by the twenty-seventh. 
After the Hadley party had left, the doctor and 
Murray came to me and asked for supplies for 
four men for fifty days, with a sledge, to go to the 
land; they had been impatient to start for some 
time. I told them that I should advise them to 
wait with the rest of us and make the journey w T ith 
us when the conditions, which were improving all 
the time as the light grew stronger, were right for 
the final journey of the whole party. They did 
not take kindly to my suggestion, however, but 
felt that they would rather make the journey in 
their own way, so I finally said that if they would 
sign an agreement absolving me from all responsi¬ 
bility if they came to grief later on, I would give 
them the supplies. They agreed to this. I told 
them, furthermore, that if at any time they wanted 
to come back to camp and rejoin the main party 
