MUSK-OXEN 
time came to slow-down on provisions, he gave 
the orders, and we had but two spare meals a 
day to sustain us. The whole expedition lived 
on travel rations from before the time we left 
Cape Sheridan until we had reached Sidney, 
N. S., and like the keen-fanged hounds, we 
were always ready and fit. 
It was late in May when Prof. MacMillan 
and Mr. Borup, with their Esquimo compan- 
ions, returned from Cape Jesup, where they 
had been doing highly important scientific 
work, taking soundings out on the sea-ice 
north of the cape as high as 84° 15' north, 
and also at the cape. They had made a trip 
that was record-breaking; they had visited the 
different cairns made by Lockwood and Brain- 
ard and by Commander Peary, and they had 
also captured and brought into the ship a 
musk-ox calf ; and they had most satisfactorily 
demonstrated their fitness as Arctic explorers, 
having followed the Commander's orders im- 
plicitly, and secured more than the required 
number of tidal-readings and soundings. 
Prof. MacMillan, with Jack Barnes, a 
sailor, and Kudlooktoo, left for Fort Conger 
early in June, and continued the work of tidal- 
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