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Kataktovick, with all the dogs and an empty sledge, 
back to Shipwreck Camp for about thirty gallons 
of the oil that we had left there. They had all the 
dogs from the three sledges and could make good 
progress. 
While McKinlay and Kataktovick were gone 
Kerdrillo and I went on a scouting tour ahead for 
a way to see how the road looked. We found that 
the storm had destroyed the old trail and that the 
trail newly made by the Munro-IIadley party was 
already changed somewhat, though as yet not very 
much. While we were on this scout Kerdrillo 
caught a glimpse, through our binoculars, of two 
men of the advance party, just visible against the 
sky-line on a high rafter eight or ten miles away. 
When we came back to camp, I had Kerdrillo build 
another igloo for his party. During the day the 
ice had all closed up again. 
About half past three the next afternoon Mc¬ 
Kinlay and Kataktovick returned from Shipwreck 
Camp, with thirty gallons of oil, two tins of alcohol, 
twelve sealskins, a few fawnskins and 6,000 tea 
tablets. They said that both ways they had found 
our trail unaltered; apparently the only movement 
of the ice had been at the sixth camp, where we 
were. 
