(201) Died. Inscription on the slab of quartzite forming the headstone In memory of August Surmantag Died Dec 1860 aged 29 years Hayes gives the age as 28 in "The Open Polar Sea". The core would have formed a very poor place for a ship this winter. Since before the mid- dle of January there has been little or no ice there beyond 150 yards from the head of the bay and of course except the ice foot. I started to follow the ice foot a- round the point into the harbor, but did not like the look of a sheep snow bank lying on it at the base of a cliff and there- fore climbed over the point. By doing this, I missed meeting Mac, who had come across a neck of land to the harbor and went out along the ice foot. He said that the snow slope was not hard, as I had feared; I saw some white sea pigeons at the entrance to the harbor, but no black ones. The Eskimos say that they have never seen any black sea pigeons at this time