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spent a most uncomfortable night walking about 
on the ice to keep warm, for late in the afternoon 
while trying to make quick time they got on to 
some thin ice and Munro broke througho The 
sledge began to sink but fortunately Munro got 
out all right and they held the sledge up long 
enough to cut the pemmican away. The pemmi- 
can was, of course, all lost and their clothes and 
camping outfit were saturated. The stove was 
damaged in the accident and they had nothing to 
warm themselves with. We got them fixed up at 
once and then cleaned off the sledge and loaded it 
again, for Breddy and Maurer were to go to the 
fourth camp the next day. 
It was my turn to be watchman that night and 
I spent a good part of the time studying the chart. 
From our present position Herald Island seemed 
to be about sixty miles away. 
Breddy and Maurer left on the fifteenth with 
seven cases of pemmican to go over the trail to 
the fourth camp. 
The next afternoon at four o’clock Chafe and 
the Eskimo came in. They were heartily wel¬ 
comed. Chafe reported that he got to a point 
within three miles of Herald Island when he was 
held up by open water. In fact for two days he 
and his party were adrift on a small sheet of ice in 
a three-mile lead. They were close enough to the 
