93 was not able to proceed farther north. On our way to Etah, Mr. Frenchen and I stopped at the Kiatak on the south- eastern side of Northumberland, to leave a Victrola which Admiral Peary asked me to deliver to Ootah, one of his North Polar companions. The stop should not have delayed us more than an hour, since the place was directly on our route, but proper care of our boat was not taken and we were left on the rocks by the receding tide, and [illegible] lost another seven hours before we could get off and go on with our journey. The 13th, however, was a calm, beautiful day like the 12th and we made good progress until about 8 p.m., when our engine broke down, five or six hours from our destination. Mr. Frenchen and his two Eskimo assistants then towed the heavy launch by means of the dinghy, rowing five hours or more to reach a safe anchorage in Sonntag Bay. During the night, a northeasterly gale descended upon us and raged for 24 hours, keeping us at anchor most of the time and preventing our rounding Cape Alexander still about 4:30 o'clock of the morning of the 15th. We dropped anchor.