THE POLAR SEA 
The ice had begun to rafter and the shattering 
reports made a noise that was ahnost ear-split- 
ting, but we pushed and pulled and managed 
to get out of the danger-zone, and kept going 
northwestward, in the hope of picking up the 
trail of the Captain and Borup, which we did 
after a mile of going. Close examination of 
the trail showed us that Borup and his party 
had retraced their steps and gone quite a dis- 
tance west in order to cross the lead. It was 
on this march that we were to have met Borup 
and his party returning, so Marvin and his 
boy Kyutah were sent to look them up. The 
rest of the party kept on in the newly found 
trail and came to the igloo and cache that had 
been left there by Borup. The Commander 
went into the igloo, and we made the dogs fast 
and built our own igloos, made our tea and 
went to sleep. 
March 4: Heavy snow fall; but Comman- 
der Peary routed out all hands, and by seven 
o'clock we were following the Captain's trail. 
Very rough going, and progress slow up to 
about nine o'clock, when conditions changed. 
We reached heavy, old floes of waving blue 
ice, the best traveling on sea ice I had ever 
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