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work well, and his patient did his part with rare 
grit, so that the result was a success. 
Following their instructions to divide into 
smaller parties, for general harmony and larger 
hunting areas, Mamen, Malloch and Templeman 
left the main party on Icy Spit and went down 
around the southeastern shore of the island to 
Rodgers Harbor. Here they erected a tent and 
planned to build a house of driftwood, a plan which 
on account of circumstances they were never able 
to carry into effect. Towards the end of May 
Malloch and Mamen became ill with nephritis and 
died, Malloch first and Mamen only a few days 
later. Templeman was thus left alone, until he 
was joined by Munro and Maurer, who stayed with 
him until the rescue. They lived on birds 9 eggs 
and seal and, later in the summer, on some Arctic 
foxes which fortunately came their way. 
During the early spring the party at Icy Spit 
were fortunate in killing polar bear, which gave 
them fresh meat. As the season advanced they 
moved down the coast to Waring Point, where 
they found conditions more favorable for getting 
birds than on the barren levels of Icy Spit. Here 
they pitched their tents again and took up a regu¬ 
lar routine of life. Hadley, McKinlay, Kerdrillo, 
Keruk and the two children occupied one tent and 
