Three mile walk at mid-(199 lay, going up the fjord along North shore, Thick and disagreeable as well as very windy. Some of the men came in from their caches this morning via ice cup and said it was very bad but Ahwееgeeah, who came in a few hours later, said that there was no strong wind up there. This wind is very local. Storm has cleared away this af- ternoon, and it is beautiful out this evening. The Eskimos say that they are going to start south tomorrow - to Me-aute- da-hau-ri anyhow and probably all the way down to Oomanaq. Some of them however, will stop at Peterahwit for the walrus hunt. When I undertook to move my mattress to-night it was frozen to the wall partition which separates my room from the workshop - 20 February. Tuesday. B,N 25; C2,S E 6; C3, N E 6; B, S E 7; B,N 26 W,-27 ->6;-3.8;-3.5;+1.8-1.2 min -12.3; max +1.8. Out at midday to point about 2 mi from lee by sinuosities of coast where two two-pits stood once on a little isthmus of gravel,-a lovely spot for a sum- er camp, fresh water being obtainable from not distant pools, then most of my walk was on the ice foot, the sea ice being all gone from a point within