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Leaving Jenness at Cape Halkett to make some 
ethnological studies, Stefansson, Wilkins and Mc¬ 
Connell went on to the east once more and the 
middle of December reached Flaxman Island, 
where they found Leffingwell, who had come up 
on the Mary Sachs to finish some work he had be¬ 
gun the year before. He was wintering alone, 
though an Eskimo family was living not far away 
from him. 
Leaving Leffingwell on December 14, they 
reached the winter quarters of the southern party 
at Collinson Point, thirty miles to the eastward, 
on the evening of the same day. Here they spent 
the winter. Stefansson made a journey later on 
still farther to the east with a member of the south¬ 
ern party to Herschel Island and Fort Mackenzie, 
to make plans for the journey which he was to 
undertake in the spring over the ice to the north of 
Martin Point in search of new land. In the latter 
part of February McConnell made a trip to Point 
Barrow for the mail, returning to Martin Point 
not long after Stefansson, with a party of seven 
men, had started north over the ice on March 22. 
With a companion McConnell overtook them the 
next day and they travelled on for more than two 
weeks, until, on April 6 they reached the edge of 
the continental shelf, discovered by Mikkelson and 
Leffingwell in the Duchess of Bedford expedition 
