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box-house where Williams had some hot tea and 
changed his clothes. Then I sent him, with the 
chief engineer, to overtake Chafe and continue on 
the shoreward journey. 
Williamson, the second engineer, worked over 
Mamen’s knee, massaged it and finally got the 
knee-cap back into place. It was hard work be¬ 
cause it kept slipping out of the socket and had to 
be bandaged with surgeon’s plaster to keep it in 
place. In fact it was not until the tenth that Ma- 
men got so that he could hobble around and the 
dislocation was very painful. 
Sunday, the eighth, I took stock of our pemmi- 
can and found that we had 4,932 pounds left in 
camp; we had used up and sledged along the trail 
some 5,000 pounds. We ate no pemmican in 
camp, and fed the dogs mostly on seal meat except¬ 
ing when on the march. Most of the dogs were 
now out and we had in camp only those which 
were crippled or otherwise incapacitated. 
Shortly after noon on the ninth Mr. Munro and 
Williams came in. They had been held up by 
open water between the second and third camps 
and had been unable to overtake Chafe and the 
Eskimo, The next day they had started on the 
march again, only to be held up again by open 
water; late in the afternoon, however, the ice had 
closed up so that they could go on to the fifth camp. 
