The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-16
the open water extending beyond Cape

Porter bay, near Cape Joseph Heny, which I had for my winter quarters. but the outlook being unsatisfactory. l went back and put the Roosevelt into the only opening in the foe, being barred close to the mouth of the Sheridan riv- CT a little north of our position three years prior.
 Put Up for Winter.
 The season was further advanced than in 1905; there was more snow on the ground and the new ice inside the foe bergs was much thicker. The work of discharging the ship was commenced at once and rushed to com pletion. The supplies and equipment we sledged across ice and sea and deposited on shore. house and workshop were built of board, covered with sails. and fitted with stoves, and the ship was snug for winter in shoal water, where 1t touched bottom at low tide The settlement on the stormy shores of the Arctic ocean was christened Hub bardville.
 Hunting parties were sent out on Sep tember 10 and bear was brought in on the 18th and some deer day or two later.
 Prepare for Sledqe Trip. On September 15 the tull work of trans ferring supplies to Cape Columbia was inaugurated. Marvin with Dr. Good sail and Borup and the Eskimos. took l6 sledge loads of supplies to Cape Belknap and on the 27th the same party started w"h loads to Porter bay. The work of hunting and transporting supplies prosecuted continuously by the members of the party and the Eski- | mos until November 5. when the sup plies for the spring sledge trip had been removed from winter quarters and de- posted at various places from Cape Co., Ian to Cape Columbia.
 Ina lat nf Ca ntnnr fhn ment of the ice subjected the ship to q pressure which listed it to port some eight ten degrees, and 1t did not re- cover till the following spring.
 On October l went on hunt with two Eskimos across the field and Pass bay and the peninsula. made the circuit of Clemants Markham inlet, and returned to the ship in seven days with l5 musk oXen a bear and a deer.
 Later in October l repeated the trip, obtaining five musk oxen. and hunting parties secured some 40 deer.
 Supplies Moved to Base.
 In the February moon Bartlett went to Cape Heca. Goodsall moved some more supplies from Hecla to Cape Colan, and Borup went to Markham inlet on hunt ing trip. On February 15 Bartlett left the Roosevelt with his division for Cape Columbia and Parr bay.
 Goodsall. Borup. MacMillan and Han sen followed on successive days with their provisions. Marvin returned from Cape Bryant on February F and left for Cape Columbia on February 2l. l brought up the February p.
 The total of all divisions leaving the Roosevelt was seven members of the party. 59 Eskimos. 40 dogs and g sledges.
 Make Ready for Dash.
 By February 27 such of the Cape Colan depot was needed had been brought t0 rested and double rationed and harnessed, and the sledges and other gear over hauled.
 Four months of northerly winds during the fall and winter instead of souther- ly ones, as during the previous season, led me to expect less open water than before, but great deal of rough ice. and l was prepared to hew a road through the jagged ice for the first hundred miles or so, then cross the big lead.
 Bartlett Leads the Way.
 On the last day of February Bartlett. with his pioneer division, accomplished this. and his division got away due north over the ice on March l. The rest of the party got away on Bartletts trail, and l followed an hour later.
 The party now comprised seven mem bers of the expedition, r Eskimos. lS3 dogs and l9 sledges. One Eskimo and seven dogs had gone to pieces.
 
 snow, and temperature in the minus marked our departure from the camp at Cape Columbia, which l had christened Crane City. Rough ice in the first march damaged several sledges and smashed two beyond repair. the teams going back to Columbia for other sledges in reserve there.
 Pass British Record.
 We camped ten miles from Crane City. The easterly wind and low temperature continued. In the second march we passed the British record made by Mark ham in May, 1S76-S2. 20-and were stopped by open water, which had been f9rnrd by wind after Bartlett passed
 In this march we negotiated the lead and reached Bartletts third camp. Borup had gone back from here but missed his way, owing to the faulting of the trail by the movement of the ice
 Marvin came back also for more fuel and alcohol. The wind continued, form ing open water all about us. At the end of the fourth march we came upon Bartlett. who had been stopped by a wide lake of open water We remained here from March to March Il.
 Gets Glimpse of Sun.
 At noon of March the sun. red and shaped like a football by excessed re- flection. just raised itself above the hori- zon for a few minutes and then disap-
  seen it since October l.
 I now began to feel good deal of anxiety because there were no signs of Marvin and Borup, who should have been there for two days. Besides, they had the alcohol and oil which were in dispensable for us.
 We concluded that they had either lost the trail or were imprisoned on an is land by open water, probably the latter.
 Fortunately. on March Il the lead was practicable and. leaving note for Mar win and Borup to push on after us by forced marches we proceeded northward. The sounding of the lead gave 1lO fathoms
 During this march we crossed the eighty-fourth parallel and traversed a succession of just frozen leads. from a few hundred yards to mile in width. This march was really simple.
 On the fourteenth we got free of the leads and came on decent going, While we were making camp a courier from Marvin came and informed me he was