firmed me in this decision, 1/82 I find K.R. a delightful man to meet. 11 July. Tuesday. Clear + cloudless. Wind S l at ship, but N.W. on floe. Temp. min 31½°; 9a. 46°; 12m 41°; 4h. 43°. Finished packing and completed business with Captain Pickels leaving letters for him to forward her paid and list of all Exfd. + Mus.+ pers. property remaining on board Cluett. Amount of baggage rather staggered Peter but Rasmussen was game for it and at about 1 p.m. Two kametites took it all to the beach without accident, though the sledge load- ed with the Etha boxes started to slide back down the ice foot. I was standing alone by it and grabbed the points of one runner, lifting it a little and an instant later the rear corners of the runners coughed in the snow and stopped the descent of the sledge. I left the ship a minute in advance of Peters and Captain Corner (?) after a very cordial farewell from all the crew and a sufficiently hearty parting with Captain Pickels (in the cabin). As we three were walscing across the ice, the crew gave us a crousing cheer and Mene (?) fired a salute from his rifle. The packages were rearranged and loaded onto the six sledges - Rasmussen using my sleeping bag to help make his sledge a very comfortable place for me to ride. Peter took Captain Corner on his sledge and was the first one to start from in front of the igloo at 12 July, Wednesday 12:20 a.m. followed with in ten minutes by all the others. I walked across the high beach and the first brook (coming from the first gulf east of the igloo) and along the snow beside the large brook until Rasmussen. I jumped on and rode the whole distance to the ice of North Star Bay, just as Rasmussen had said that I should, though the snow was soft on