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and completed the delineation of the coast
until it was connected to the S. and W.
with the highest positive determination of
Inglefield.

On the 26th the East Greenland
Party under McGeary and Bonsall re=
turned. Well worn out but successful.
They move the termination of Greenland
to the N.o and establish valuable
geographical material confirmatory of
my own results.

Morton is still out with
the dog team. I know my man and
anticipate for him the discovery of
a channel and the completion of the
entire circuit of Smith's Sound.
While yet on my back I taught him to
use the sextant and from his intelligence
I can rely on his results.

So ends June - the eleventh month of
our ice besetment and as yet no pros=
pect of escape. We look to July - the
month of greatest change in the ice to
give us the conditions essential to
possible liberation. The water could
nnot be see a week ago - within an ob=
served radius of twenty five miles.
All of this distance together with the heavy ice of
Rensselaer Bay must break up
before our departure.