23 August. Wednesday. Overcast. Calm or S.W.1 at 8 o'clock and through morning, but sky cleared in afternoon and about 3 o'clock heavy S.E. wind (6-7) began to blow. K.P. returned this morning without having reached the glacier. He went to the top of the cliffs near Cape Bathol and concluded that ice conditions in Melville Bay were most probably very bad. So too most emphatically Ajatko ("Pingasut") and Egingwah bade, while Et felt much the same way though Dr (who had not gone up so high on the cliffs) thought differently. The souther- ly winds that have prevailed so long and heavily this summer and particu- larly during the past month have certainly packed the ice against the